The Threat to the Internal Validity of Experiments That Is

question 19

Multiple Choice

The threat to the internal validity of experiments that is called "maturation" is best defined as:

• A)changes occurring within experimental subjects that are due to the passage of time.
• B)subjects becoming familiar with measuring devices used in experiments after they have been administered repeatedly.
• C)the tendency for extremely mature experimental subjects to regress toward the mean of the group over time.
• D)historical changes that occur between administration of the pretest and the posttest.

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