chapter 14 questions
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- The difference between a true score and an obtained score is referred to as:
- Error of measurement
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One source of measurement error in social-psychological scales is:
A) Response-set bias
B) Split-half bias
C) Maturation bias
D) Selection bias - Response-set bias
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A measure of which of the following traits would be a good candidate for a test-retest reliability assessment?
A) Anxiety level
B) Fear of heights
C) Mood
D) Fatigue - Fear of heights
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Cronbach's alpha is used to determine which of the following attributes of an instrument?
A) Internal consistency B) Stability
C) Equivalence
D) Sensitivity - Internal consistency
- The aspect of reliability for which interobserver reliability is appropriate is:
- Equivalence
- If the coefficient alpha for a stress scale was computed to be .80, the scale would be:
- Of acceptably high reliability
- The type of validity that employs primarily logical rather than empirical procedures in its assessment is:
- Content
- Suppose a researcher were interested in assessing the adequacy of an instrument to measure the theoretical concept of hopefulness. The type of validation procedure would most probably be:
- Construct
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Which of the following terms does not belong with the other three?
A)Face validity
C)Predictive validity
B)Criterion-related validity
D)Concurrent validity - Face validity
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Which of the following terms does not belong with the others?
A)Known-groups technique
C)Factor analysis
B)Peer debriefing
D)Relationship testing - Peer debriefing
- An overall assessment of the adequacy of a structured self-report or observational instrument is referred to as a:
- Psychometric assessment
- With screening or diagnostic instruments, the concept indicating the instruments' ability to correctly identify a “case†(i.e., to screen in or diagnose a condition correctly) is:
- Sensitivity
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Which of the following is not an aspect of trustworthiness?
A) Transferability
B) Confirmability
C) Stability
D) Dependability - Stability
- If both in-depth interviews and participant observations were used to collect data on a phenomenon in a study, this would be referred to as:
- Method triangulation
- If a researcher studying family response to adolescent suicide interviewed parents and siblings independently, the triangulation approach method would be called:
- Data source triangulation