The quality of an experiment is judged by its internal validity. When we say that an experiment is internally valid, it means that
a. our operational definitions of the dependent and independent variables accurately capture the concepts those variables are meant to represent.
b. within the context of the experiment, each time we take a measure of the dependent variable from a participant, we get roughly the same result.
c. our operational definitions of variables are valid, but only within the context of that one experiment.
d. we can confidently state that any observed changes in the dependent variable result from manipulations of the independent variable(s) and nothing else.
D
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