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Answer choices in this exercise appear in a different order each time the page is loaded. Which of the following threats to internal validity is present in a oneAnother threat to the internal validity of one-group pretest-posttest designs is testing , which refers to when the act of measuring the dependent variable during the pretest affects participants' responses at posttest.
What is the main problem of a oneThe one-group pretest–posttest research design does not account for many confounding variables that may threaten the internal validity of a study.
Which of these is a threat to validity in a oneAn internal validity threat to a one-group, pretest/posttest design that refers to a statistical concept called regression to the mean. This type of threat only occurs when a group has an extreme score at the pretest.
What is the disadvantage of using a oneThe only disadvantage of the pretest-posttest control group design compared to the posttest only design, is that there can be a threat to internal validity called the testing threat. As was discussed in an earlier chapter, this threat can occur when there is an interaction between the pretest and the treatment.
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