Describe three different types of validity that are relevant to personality assessment, and briefly discuss the meaning of each

What will be an ideal response?


(1) CONSTRUCT: The measure accurately reflects the construct (conceptual quality) of interest.
(2) CRITERION: The measure relates to other manifestations of the personality quality it is supposed to be measuring; or, uses a behavioral index (or observer judgment) as an external criterion (standard of comparison), and sees how well the measure correlates with it.
(3) CONVERGENT: The measure relates to characteristics that are similar to, but not the same as, what it is supposed to measure.
(4) DISCRIMINANT: The measure does not measure qualities it was not intended to measure, especially qualities that do not fit with what the researcher had in mind as a construct.
(5) FACE: The measure appears, on the "face" of it, to be measuring the construct; it "looks" right.

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Which of these is a higher level of CAI that is often applied in schools?

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The variable manipulated by the experimenter is called the

a. independent variable. b. control variable. c. dependent variable. d. correlation coefficient.

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A. The connections multiply immensely. B. The connections begin to form and take time to mature. C. No new connections are formed, but pruning takes place. D. Nothing changes in regard to synaptic connections.

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