Question

To examine the effectiveness of empathy training on children's sharing behavior, two months of training are provided to 3-year-old children living in rural Georgia. Six months later, the children's sharing behaviors are measured and compared to their pretraining sharing behavior. Improvements are considered the result of the empathy training. Which factor is a potential source of internal invalidity?
A. All the children were from rural Georgia.
B. Children's sharing behavior may improve with the simple passage of time.
C. The observers of the sharing behavior may disagree.
D. Children who were the best sharers before the training were not necessarily the best after the training.

Answer 1

Answer:B. Children's sharing behavior may improve with the simple passage of time.

Explanation:Internal and external validity makes the research trustworthy and meaningful.

Internal validity refers to when cause and effect relationship of a treatment and outcome can be trusted.Internal validity also occurs when there is no alternative explanation for a finding.

This means you have to be sure that there are no other factors in play with your research that everything is a result of what you have put to the research and nothing else.

Internal validity is then how confident one is to the result of the research.