A researcher studies the impact of cell phone use during class lectures on college students' exam scores. Whether the results of this study help us to understand the relationship between cell phone use during class lectures and work performance in real-life institutions is a question of

A. internal validity.
B. study confounds.
C. external validity.
D. the original research hypothesis.


Answer: C

Psychology

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