14. Validity in a. Th e extent to which operational definitions of variables mea

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14. Validity in a. Th e extent to which operational definitions of variables measure what they intend to h means: measure b. The extent to which study results can be replicated across different settings c. The extent to which rescarch findings can be replicated by different researchens d. The extent to which survey questions are unbiased. 15. Response bias is: a. When research findings are not replicable. b. When research findings accidentally reveal the identity of the research subjects. e. When the wording or order of a survey question prompts a particular answer. d. When the sampling method of a survey is not representative. 16. Which of the following best describes Milgram's obedience to authority study? others a. An unethical study that examined whether people would give electric shocks to b. An unethical study that examined how prisoners behaved in response to different c. An unethical study that examined whether the children of authoritarian parents d. An unethical study that examined whether sick patients would follow their doctor's if they were told to do so. types of prison guards became obedient or rebellious teenagers. orders, even if it meant they might die 17. Which of the following best describes a spurious correlation between alcohol abuse and domestic violence? a. If domestic violence is unrelated to alcohol abuse. b. If alcohol abuse is an indirect cause of domestic violence. c. If both alcohol abuse and domestic violence are caused by some third variable. d. If alcohol abuse is both cause and consequence of domestic violence

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Option A- The extent to which operational definitions of variables measure what they tend to measure Validity is that anything it measures what it tends to measure, so a good validity for a research will be the appropriateness of the research corresponds to the content that it wants to measure. Option C- When the wording or order of a survey question prompts a particular answer It means prejudicing toward anything, response bias is an aspect of it where the responses are predictable and prompted. Option A- A unethical study that examined whether people would give electric shocks to others if they were told to do so Miligram's experiment on obedience was an unethical study where the person in authority commands the subjects to give electric shocks to others just to check the obedience in them. Option A- If domestic violence is unrelated to alcohol abuse It is a spurious correlation because domestic violence may be related to alcohol abuse as the person abusing the alcohol tends to show aggression in the intoxicated state and also in sober state sometimes for various reasons related with alcohol

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