It is possible for a test to be valid but not reliable

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


FALSE

Psychology

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After you cough a few times, you suddenly worry that you have lung cancer, instead of several more common reasons for coughing. What are you overlooking?

a. Change blindness b. The maximizing strategy c. Base-rate information d. Heuristics

Psychology

Which of these is a "negative" symptom of schizophrenia?

a. Delusions b. Thought disorder c. Lack of emotional expression d. Alternation between personalities

Psychology

According to your text's analysis of revising self-knowledge, changing the way you think about yourself is difficult because ____

a. people lack the discipline to implement changes they consider b. people don't want to make changes in self-knowledge c. people around us see us as having stable traits and that exerts pressure to not change d. people are constantly changing their social contexts

Psychology

Scott suffers from metabolic insufficiency X (MIX) disorder. His mother also has MIX disorder, but his father does not. What can we conclude?

a. The MIX gene must be recessive. b. The MIX gene must be dominant. c. Scott may or may not pass down the gene for MIX disorder to his children. d. Scott will pass down the MIX disorder to his children, but they may not get the disease.

Psychology