Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1 External validity means an experiment defines operational variables in a normal, typical, or realistic way
2 Experimental psychologists seeking to determine cause-and-effect relations between variables tend to view external validity as more important than internal validity
3 A sample taken from a population is signified by a lowercase n
4 In the case method, only one individual is studied
5 Random assignment to groups is common when using the case method


1 True
2 False
3 True
4 True
5 False

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