Taking a Broader Perspective: The Problem of External Validity The advantage of unobtrusively observing eating behavior in a restaurant (Marston, London, Cooper, & Cohen, 1977) instead of a laboratory is that the unobtrusive approach seems to have
A)fewer risks of confounding.
B)greater external validity.
C)greater internal validity.
D)fewer risks of confounding and greater external validity.

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Unobtrusive observation in a natural setting like a restaurant increases external validity because the behavior is observed in a real-world context, making the findings more generalizable.

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