To Examine the Effectiveness of Empathy Training on Children's Sharing

question 122

Multiple Choice

To examine the effectiveness of empathy training on children's sharing behaviour, two months of training are provided to 3-year-old children living in rural Manitoba. Six months later, the children's sharing behaviours are measured and compared to their pretraining sharing behaviour. Improvements are considered the result of the empathy training. Which factor is a potential source of internal invalidity?

• A) All the children were from rural Manitoba.
• B) Children's sharing behaviour may improve with the simple passage of time.
• C) The observers of the sharing behaviour may disagree.
• D) Children who were the best sharers before the training were not necessarily the best after the training.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Consequences

The results or effects that follow from specific actions, behaviors, or decisions, possibly affecting future scenarios.

Behavior

Behavior refers to the actions or reactions of an organism or system, usually in response to stimuli in its environment, observable by others.

Automatic Response

An involuntary reaction or behavior that occurs in response to a specific stimulus without conscious thought.