Joelle was conducting a six-month experiment in which she was interviewing members of the community to determine if a new police-community outreach program increased positive perception of police officers amongst the community.Four months into the experiment,a scandal regarding police brutality hit the news in a neighboring city,which had an effect upon this community's perception of police.Which source of internal invalidity does this example reflect?
A) maturation.
B) instrumentation.
C) compensation.
D) selection biases.
E) history.

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This example reflects the source of internal invalidity known as history, as an external event (the police brutality scandal in a neighboring city) occurred and may have affected the participant's perception of the police officers being interviewed.

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