Dr. Rose gives a standardized personality test to a group of psychology majors in January and again in March. Each individual's score remained nearly the same over the two-month period. From this, Dr. Rose can infer that the test is _____

a. reliable
b. generalizable
c. objective
d. verified


Answer: A

Rationale: As long as an experiment uses sufficiently objective measurements and techniques, and if the original hypothesis was correct, then similar results should be achieved by later researchers who perform the same types of studies.

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