A researcher is carrying out a quasi-experimental study. She has the experimental groups in one lab and a control group in another lab
During the intervention phase of her study, the control school has a small fire that forces participants to leave the lab for one hour. She finds huge differences between the experimental and control groups after the study is completed. While there could be an effect of her intervention, a possible rival hypothesis might be:
a. There was a maturation effect
b. There was an instrumentation effect
c. There was a differential history or selection-history effect
d. There was a selection-maturation effect
C
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).