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SPCE 630 Questions with Solutions
1. Threats to internal validity include:: History, maturation, testing, procedural
infidelity
2. Events that occur during the experiment but that are not related to planned
procedural changes that may influence the outcomes.: History
3. Changes in behavior due to the passage of time.: Maturation
4. Occurs when participants need to respond to the same test repeatedly during a
baseline or probe condition, which influences responding.: Testing
5. Threats related to the measurement system, and are of concern because of repeated
measurement by human observers who may make errors.: Instru- mentation
6. Inconsistent implementation of the experimental condition.: Procedural Infi- delity
7. The loss of participants during a study, which limits the generality of find- ings.:
Attrition
8. Occurs when a participant's behavior is influenced by more than one planned
intervention during the course of a study.: Multiple Treatment Intrefer- ence
9. A type of data instability that refers to a repeated and predictable pattern in the data
