The Threat to the Internal Validity of an Experiment That

question 18

Multiple Choice

The threat to the internal validity of an experiment that is called compensatory treatment refers to which of the following situations?

• A) the control group subjects being paid while the experimental group subjects are not
• B) the experimental group subjects being paid while the control group subjects are not
• C) the subjects in the control group feel deprived of something they consider valuable
• D) there is no threat to internal validity called compensatory treatment

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