You want to determine if a measure of alcohol abuse has good criterion validity. You would compare it against which of the following?
a) The number of DWI arrests in the next 12 month
b) An existing diagnostic interview of substance dependence
c) Expert judges' evaluation of the measure
d) History of inpatient substance abuse treatment
A
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What is meant by the term blindsight? a. Someone who has total damage to the eyes has learned to identify colors by touch. b. Someone can in fact see the shape of objects, even in total darkness
c. Someone claims to see normally, despite being totally blind. d. Someone can indicate the location of a visual stimulus without consciously seeing it.
The use of varied combinations of verbal interventions and behavioral modification techniques to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking BEST describes
a. group therapy treatments. b. cognitive-behavioral treatments. c. biomedical treatments. d. insight treatments.
Knowledgeable and unbiased observers have generally noted, and studies have reliably shown, that psychotherapy is better than no treatment at all for a person who is seriously depressed. My study failed to find a difference. From this I can conclude that
a. psychotherapy really is not effective. b. my study must have been poorly done. c. my study may have lacked sufficient power to find a difference. d. other psychologists don't know what they are talking about.
Researchers have been shown to mistakenly believe that because their measure has linguistic equivalence it also has ______.
a. conceptual equivalence b. theoretical equivalence c. metric equivalence d. subcultural equivalence