Students on Two College Campuses Serve as Treatment and Control

question 17

Multiple Choice

Students on two college campuses serve as treatment and control groups in a study investigating the effectiveness of an alcohol-abuse prevention campaign.A well-known student on one of the campuses dies of alcohol intoxication in the course of the study; students on the other campus did not learn of the student's death.The reaction of other students to the student's death on their campus could represent a potential threat to the internal validity of the study called

• A) history.
• B) selection.
• C) additive effects of selection and history.
• D) additive effects of selection and maturation.

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Definitions:

Wason Selection Task

A logic puzzle that demonstrates the difficulty people have in testing rules in a rational or logical way, often used in the study of deductive reasoning.

Propositional Rule

A statement in logic that expresses a relationship between concepts through propositions or declarative sentences.

Prefrontal Cortex

The part of the frontal lobes of the brain located at the front of the frontal lobe, involved in complex behaviors such as planning, decision making, and moderating social behavior.

Phineas Gage

A historically significant case in the study of neuroscience and psychology, where a man survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior.