What should the test developer do when the data from a pilot test suggest that the assessment instrument is not reliable or valid?
a. Conduct another pilot study with different participants in a different setting
b. Interview the respondents to find out why the test did not work
c. Make changes to improve reliability and validity before allowing the test user to administer it
d. Make the necessary changes and afterward conduct another pilot test with different participants
d. Make the necessary changes and afterward conduct another pilot test with different participants
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a. self-presentation b. lack of awareness c. both self-presentation and lack of awareness d. neither self-presentation nor lack of awareness
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A) been very successful. B) been somewhat successful, but only when the treatment begins before the start of adolescence. C) been shown to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia, but do not prevent the disorder from developing. D) not been effective to date.
Otoliths are
A. small stones attached to hair cells. B. vestibular nerves that make contact with hair cells. C. particles suspended in the fluid of the semicircular canals. D. membranes found in the saccule and utricle.
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A) sharply increased after 1970 B) is lower today than it was in 1980 C) has slowly decreased since the turn of the twenty-first century D) fell steadily in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries