What are the five basic sources of internal invalidity?

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There are five basic sources of internal invalidity:
1. Selection bias—when characteristics of the experimental and comparison group subjects differ
2. Endogenous change—when the subjects develop or change during the experiment as part of an ongoing process independent of the experimental treatment
3. External events/history effects—when something occurs during the experiment, other than the treatment, that influences outcome scores
4. Contamination—when either the experimental group or the comparison group is aware of the other group and is influenced in the posttest as a result (Mohr, 1992)
5. Treatment misidentification—when variation in the independent variable (the treatment) is associated with variation in the observed outcome, but the change occurs through a process that the researcher has not identified

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