Brenda is developing a test to identify children who are likely to become "school refusers" (i.e., they refuse to attend school). She administers her test to a large number of elementary school children and then tracks the children's attendance to determine who actually becomes a school refuser. Brenda is assessing ____
a. content validity
b. predictive validity
c. factor structure
d. consequential validity
b
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___ addresses the development of older adults' social networks.
A. Socioemotional selectivity theory B. Disengagement theory C. Social learning theory D. Activity theory
Inferential statistics allow you to decide whether a difference between the experimental and the control group is due to _______________ or ________________
a. manipulation; chance b. manipulation; experimental error c. sampling error; independent variable d. independent variable; experimental error
The ability to _____ is a better predictor of school grades than is _____.
A) work hard; social class B) delay gratification; IQ score C) control emotions; IQ score D) delay gratification; social class