A Team of Researchers Conduct a Study in Which They

question 17

Multiple Choice

A team of researchers conduct a study in which they want to look at how the performance of children from the worst-performing school in the country is affected by a change in government education policy.Looking at a new sample of students, they find that a year later the school is no longer the worst-performing and attribute this to the effects of the policy.Which of the following is most likely to affect the internal validity of this conclusion?

• A)Mortality effects.
• B)Regression to the mean.
• C)Practice effects.
• D)Demand characteristics.
• E)Experimenter bias.

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Definitions:

Bandura

Albert Bandura was a psychologist best known for his work on social learning theory and for emphasizing the role of observational learning, self-efficacy, and reciprocal determinism in psychology.

Major Perspectives

Broad ways of understanding or analyzing human behavior and mental processes, including psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and biological viewpoints.

Psychodynamic

A psychological perspective that emphasizes the systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.

Behavioural

Relating to or concerned with the actions or activities of living organisms in response to external or internal stimuli.