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If you collected evidence to determine if the concrete operations you used to induce a state of embarrassment in research participants really created embarrassment, you are concerned with

construct reliability construct validity criterion-related validity content validity

If you are studying people with eating disorders and select as your research participants individuals who self-report binging and vomiting, and who have previously been in therapy for an eating disorder and exhibited these symptoms, you are using these concrete operations as your definition of a person with an eating disorder. If these operations really do result in selecting people with eating disorders, you have achieved

external validity of the type of research participants you want construct validity of the type of research participants you want construct validity of your research setting internal validity of your research participants

Experimenter effects threaten which type of validity?

External validity Statistical conclusion validity Construct validity Internal validity

Dr. Know conducted an experiment on youth violence and found that his treatment was effective when he conducted it at the Strickland Youth Center, so he also tried it at the Boys Club. However, it was not effective when administered at the Boys Club, revealing which threat to external validity?

temporal validity threat population validity threat ecological validity threat outcome validity threat

An intertreatment interaction exists when

participants' perceptions of the different treatment conditions suggest similar ways of presenting oneself in a positive manner. the different treatment conditions suggest different ways in which the participants should respond. participants in the same treatment condition perceive that they can fulfill the positive self-presentation motive by responding in different ways. the motive for positive self-presentation suggests different ways of responding in the various treatment groups.

Authoritarianism of the experimenter would be considered as a

biosocial attribute situational factor psychosocial attribute biological attribute

Generalization refers to

divergent validity. external validity. convergent validity. internal validity.

The experimenter expectancy effect is mediated by

recording errorsnonverbal factors such as a nod, tone of voice, or a glancedeliberate cheatingexperimenters with a high need for social approval

Seasonal and cyclical variations are threats to what type of external validity

outcome validitypopulation validitytemporal validitytreatment variation validity

While external validity is important in many studies, it is not in some studies because

they are conducted in the context of an artificial laboratoryin some studies the important component to be generalized is the understanding or theoretical process and not the specific resultsthe study did not control for the effect of all extraneous variablesthey have used animals to test the effect of some treatment

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