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

question 22

Multiple Choice

To examine the effectiveness of empathy training on children's sharing behaviour, 2 months of training are provided to 3-year-old children living in rural Saskatchewan. Six months later, the children's sharing behaviours are measured and compared to their pre-training 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 Saskatchewan.
• 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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