If a control group realizes they are being denied some advantage, which two processes may create invalid experimental findings?

a. Compensatory rivalry and demoralization
b. Regression and maturation
c. Contamination and the placebo effect
d. Reactivity and the history effect
e. History and regression


a. Compensatory rivalry and demoralization

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a. Latin American families b. all families c. interracial families d. economically impoverished families

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a. restoring the family's former homeostatic balance b. searching for new levels of balance c. remaining outside observers d. none of the above

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A. mutually exclusive B. conceptualized C. collectively exhaustive D. dependent

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