Dr. Sussman conducts a study on the effect of various motivational factors on job performance. In her study, she does an excellent job of controlling extraneous factors and as a result, there is high confidence in the causal conclusions she draws. However, the participants in her study were from a select group of the population and, therefore, Dr. Sussman will be rather limited in terms of her ability to apply her results to other people and situations. Taken as a whole, this study would be said to have poor _____________________.
A)internal validity
B)internal reliability
C)external validity
D)external reliability

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The study has poor external validity because while it controls for extraneous variables well (indicating high internal validity), its results may not generalize well to other populations or settings due to the select group of participants used.

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