What would you be doing if you administered the same measuring
instrument to the same group of people on two separate occasions to
observe the similarities between the results?
A. Parallel forms reliability
B. Split half reliability
C. Test-retest reliability
D. Content validity
C
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“Everyone in this class will learn how to cure all emotional and behavioral problems” is considered a(n):
a. Operational goal b. Nonoperational goal c. Hidden agenda d. Competitive task
A psychologist interested in nonverbal communication decided to do an informal study on eye contact. Knowing that eye contact tends to be associated with an emotional connection,
she believed that most people would be uncomfortable maintaining eye contact for more than a few moments with a total stranger. To test this, she took a walk on a crowded street and counted how many seconds she could maintain eye contact with various strangers before they looked away. Her findings, in seconds, were 3.2 2.1 1.7 1.1 2.6 2.2 3.1 1.9 1.7 4.7 2.3 1.6 2.4 Calculate the (a) range, (b) inter-quartile range, and (c) variance and standard deviation for these lengths of eye contact. What would be an ideal response?
Suppose a sample of students in your class counts 13 females and 7 males. What is the expected frequency of males?
A. 7 B. 10 C. 13 D. 20
The goal for those who drink chronically is:
a. Abstinence b. Crisis intervention c. Education about health risks d. None of the above