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Developmental Psychology Across the Lifespan

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A researcher claims that children who receive higher-quality early language input show better later reading comprehension, but only when schooling quality is also high. The researcher compares 8-year-olds from four different birth cohorts in a single year and finds the interaction. Which methodological concern most directly threatens the inference that early language input caused later reading differences?

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Testing effects due to repeated exposure to the same reading test
Cohort effects that confound age differences with historical/contextual differences
Attrition that selectively removes lower-performing children over time
Demand characteristics because children may guess the researcher's hypothesis
Inter-rater reliability problems in scoring reading comprehension

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