One Threat to the Internal Validity of Research That Affects

question 54

Multiple Choice

One threat to the internal validity of research that affects both true experiments and quasi-experiments is

• A) selection threats.
• B) additive effects with selection.
• C) experimenter expectancy effects.
• D) all of these

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