Melanie is conducting a laboratory experiment that she hopes will support her theory that false memories are fairly easy to create.She asks college students to memorize a list of words and then complete an interference task.She finds that a significant number of participants report remembering words they were not asked to memorize.Which type of validity does her study most likely lack?
A)construct validity
B)theoretical validity
C)internal validity
D)external validity

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External validity refers to the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other settings, populations, and times. Since the study is conducted in a controlled laboratory setting with college students, it may not accurately reflect how false memories are created in real-world situations, thus lacking external validity.

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