If Participants in One Treatment Group Become Familiar with the Treatment

question 20

Multiple Choice

If participants in one treatment group become familiar with the treatment of another group and copy that treatment, the experiment has low internal validity due to

• A) selection.
• B) maturation.
• C) statistical regression.
• D) diffusion of treatment.

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Definitions:

Survival Threats

Situations or conditions that pose significant risk to the continued existence or well-being of an individual or species.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

An educational method where two stimuli are consistently associated with each other, resulting in a reaction initially triggered by the second stimulus being subsequently triggered by the first stimulus alone.

Dissociative Disorders

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