Identify the threats to internal validity illustrated in the examples below. Preschoolers who received treatment for stuttering during the year show a significant improvement in articulation

a. experimental mortality
b. reactive effect of testing
c. statistical regression
d. maturation
e. instrumentation


D

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a. statistically significant at the .05 level. c. Not statistically significant. b. statistically significant at the .01 level. d. None of these are true.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Association of Pediatrics

(AAP) encourages: a. Breast feeding exclusively for the first 3 months of life, then switching to bottle feeding for the next 9 months. b. Breast feeding exclusively for the first 2 years of life. c. Breast feeding for a year for all babies unless the mother is an active drug user, HIV positive, or severely malnourished d. Bottle-feeding for the first six weeks since formula can be regulated and we will have a more accurate idea of the child's nutritional intake.

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