Researchers Were Interested in Testing Whether a New Experimental Therapeutic

Multiple Choice

Researchers were interested in testing whether a new experimental therapeutic technique would reduce people's interest in Internet pornography. To do so, they recruited all of the residents of an assisted living facility (for the elderly) and randomly assigned them to the experimental treatment or control group. The treatment worked! People in the therapy group scored 0.05 on interest in Internet pornography, while people in the control group scored significantly higher (mean = 0.50) . This study would likely be high in which of the following?

A) robustness
B) ecological validity
C) relevance
D) A and B
E) B and C
F) none of the above