How do attitudes toward doing well in school differ between recent immigrants and people from the same groups who are second- or third-generation immigrants?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Recent immigrants are more likely to value doing well in school and expect to work hard in school.
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a. 2 points c. 7 points b. 5 points d. 10 points
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test is now administered by computer, allowing adaptive testing. What is adaptive testing?
a. Adaptive testing includes only those items related to the recruit's areas of interest. b. Adaptive testing involves presenting a question of known difficulty and then presenting more or less difficult items depending on whether the item was correctly answered. c. Adaptive testing eliminates sources of bias by generating large numbers of items. d. Adaptive testing reduces the risk of cheating by randomly sampling from a large test bank.
A researcher seeking to develop a measure of depression cites a moderate correlation between her measure and the Beck Depression Inventory as evidence of the test's validity. What type of validity documentation does this provide?
a. convergent validity b. discriminant validity c. content validity d. face validity
We flash a picture of a tree to the right brain of a split-brain patient and a picture of a dog to his left brain. If we ask the split-brain patient to draw what he saw using his left hand (out of sight), he will
a. draw a dog. b. draw a tree. c. draw both a dog and a tree. d. be unable to draw either picture.