A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions. She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the
this task. The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar. She concludes that this test has high
a. validity.
b. split-half reliability.
c. interrater reliability.
d. test-retest reliability.
Answer: d.
You might also like to view...
The two hemispheres of the brain process information differently; therefore, they work and process information independently of each other.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
It is possible that the order in which they experience the conditions in a study will affect the behaviors/responses the participants make, ______ the data collected.
A. skewing B. polluting C. confounding D. biasing
Carl and Jack have cohabitated in a sexual relationship for a number of years. Carl and Jack's sexual orientation would best be characterized as
a. homosexual. b. bisexual. c. heterosexual. d. transsexual.
In I Do!, the article about video self-modeling (VSM), the video modeling technique is most directly based
on the finding that models are likely to be imitated by people if they are perceived to be (a) similar (b) powerful (c) adult (d) attractive