Author Question: The threat to the internal validity of an experiment that is called compensatory treatment refers to ... (Read 59 times)

KimWrice · **on:** Aug 13, 2018

The threat to the internal validity of an experiment that is called compensatory treatment refers to which of the following situations?

a. the control group subjects being paid while the experimental group subjects are not
b. the experimental group subjects being paid while the control group subjects are not
c. the subjects in the control group feel deprived of something they consider valuable
d. there is no threat to internal validity called compensatory treatment

Question 2

Sometimes it is not possible to separate subjects from experimental and control groups and the result is that they may discuss the research. What is the threat that this situation poses?

a. causal time order
b. experimental mortality
c. diffusion or imitation of treatments
d. statistical regression