Dr. Heinz has designed a new test for assessing depression. She has found that repeated administrations of the test have had consistent results across her sample subjects. We could say that her test has high
a. psychometric soundness.
b. reliability.
c. validity.
d. significance.
e. efficacy.
b. reliability.
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How can a father's habits affect the health of an unborn child during prenatal development?
A. A father's nicotine intake produces DNA changes that are passed to the fetus on chromosome 23. B. A father's use of barbiturates interacts with a mother's use of marijuana, resulting in missing chromosomes on a child's 8th pair. C. A father's use of alcohol or illegal drugs can affect his sperm, which in turn may lead to chromosomal damage that affects the fetus. D. A father's use of crack cocaine causes sperm mutations, such that two sperm are capable of fertilizing a single ovum.
One concern regarding the use of a translator during therapy is
a. they must also be paid. b. terminology is confusing. c. information may be misinterpreted or mistranslated. d. confidentiality cannot be maintained.
It is possible for a distribution of scores to have more than one ____
a. mean b. median c. mode d. range
Regarding organic psychoses, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Children who eat leaded paint or breathe leaded paint powder can become psychotic or intellectually disabled. b. Children with higher levels of lead in their blood are more likely to be arrested as adults for criminal offenses. c. The most common organic psychoses are due to lead and mercury poisonings. d. All psychoses are partly organic because they involve physical changes in the brain.