An industrial/organizational psychologist correlates the responses to the even numbered items on a selection test with the responses to the odd-numbered items from the same test. Which of the following answers BEST describes the concern of the psychologist?
a. Parallel form reliability
b. Split-half reliability
c. Test-retest reliability
d. Scorer reliability
b
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a. Paige: "Most lesbian women began by trying to have heterosexual relationships; then they questioned those relationships and decided to adopt a completely lesbian identity.". b. Horace: "Men are more likely than women to shift between heterosexuality and a homosexual identity.". c. Sven: "When researchers question women who considered themselves to be lesbian at some point in their lives, the women report that they are now either clearly lesbian or clearly heterosexual.". d. Liv: "Most women who identify as ‘nonheterosexual' are likely to have questioned or changed their sexual identity at some point.".
Our sense of taste is called:
a. olfaction b. phrenology c. gustation d. kinesthesia
Most studies find that people's personality on Facebook __________
a. changes regularly, depending on what they want people to see b. looks a lot like their personality in the rest of their lives c. is nothing like their personality in real life d. is self-enhanced in an excessive way
A health psychologist obtained a random sample of 44 individuals at risk for heart disease. From each participant, she obtained measures of daily physical activity (x1), salt intake (x2), weight (x3), and cardiovascular health (y). The sum of squares for y was 200. She submitted these results to a hierarchical regression with x1 and x3 entered on Step 1, then x2 added on Step 2. The sum of squares for the ? values was 60 on Step 1, and 90 on Step 2. Therefore, the change in explained variance (?R2) is ______.
a. .27 b. .15 c. .45 d. .09