What is validity? How does it relate to reliability?
What will be an ideal response?
Without reliability, you have no chance for general accuracy. Thus, reliability is a precondition for validity (i.e., accuracy). We then assume that in any good study, the instruments used have acceptable reliability and validity. If they do not, then the results cannot be trusted and are of no use to you, just as the results of the wildly swinging weight scale are of no use to you.
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Which of the following historical figures is noted by your textbook as an example of an individual who clearly moved through all three stages of Kohlberg's theory or moral reasoning over the course of his or her lifetime?
a. Winston Churchill b. Oskar Schindler c. Joan of Arc d. Theodore Roosevelt
In Freudian dream interpretation, long objects are to penises as balconies are to ____
a. vaginas c. mouths b. breasts d. the brain
Describe Piaget's Three Mountain Task and the typical results for children of various ages
What will be an ideal response?
What is meant by "Questioning" in the SQ3R?
a) You should try to come up with a question after reading the heading of a particular section. b) You should try to come up with questions for each section after fully reading the chapter. c) You should come up with questions after reading the particular section. d) You should try to develop questions before beginning any reading of the chapter so as to determine what might be important.