Which of the Following Is NOT True of Selection Effects

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true of selection effects?

• A)Selection effects are a type of confound.
• B)Selection effects can occur when experimenters allow participants to choose their own treatment group.
• C)Selection effects are unimportant for interrogating internal validity.
• D)Selection effects can occur when researchers assign one type of person to one treatment group and another type of person to another treatment group.

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Definitions:

Extrasensory Perception

The claimed ability to obtain information about the environment or the future beyond the use of the known senses.

Unparsimonious

Describes explanations or theories that are more complex or include more assumptions than necessary to explain phenomena.

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A criterion of scientific theory that requires it to be capable of being proven false through observation or experiment.

Replicable

Capable of being repeated or duplicated under similar conditions, often used in the context of experiments or studies to verify results.