According to your authors, laboratory research generalizes
A) poorly from college undergraduates to other groups of people in other settings.
B) poorly from experimental designs in the laboratory but well from correlational or naturalistic observation designs.
C) well from laboratory settings to the real world, but only when undergraduates are not used as participants.
D) well from laboratory settings to the real world.
Answer: D
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