Which of the following is true?
a. A measure cannot be reliable without being valid.
b. Numerical measures are rarely valid.
c. A measure cannot be valid without being reliable.
d. Numerical measures are always reliable.
ANSWER:
c
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a. Most psychological development is a result of the environment. b. Lives show patterns of change up through adolescence, and continuity thereafter. c. Development must be understood as the integration of the biological, psychological, and societal systems. d. Home and school are the only relevant social environments.
What is one of the costs of living in social groups rather than in isolation?
A. Greater competition for food and mates B. Lower genetic diversity C. Fewer evolutionary pressures D. Reciprocal altruism does not work in some social groups.
Your text describes a study about children's discovery of the counting-on strategy. The researchers presented children with more difficult addition problems than they would typically encounter prior to entering school. This description was used as an example of:
a. ethnographic research b. a naturalistic experiment c. a way in which seemingly harmless research can have negative ethical consequences d. a microgenetic design
Employees who show organizational citizenship tend to
a. fit well into the culture of the organization. b. be at the managerial level. c. use management by objectives. d. do all of these.