A test maker wants to show that scores on her new measure of schizophrenia are correlated with professional psychologists' ratings of schizophrenia. She is interested in establishing
A. face validity.
B. congruent validity.
C. discriminant validity.
D. behavioral validation.
B
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Based on their assessment, clinicians want to generalize, or draw inferences about the person's behavior in the natural environment, but
a. clinicians are unable to generalize accurately. b. clinicians must rely on specific samples of a person's behavior. c. only psychophysiological tests allow for such generalizations. d. only objective tests allow for such generalizations.
If your body could not produce leptin, what would be the probable outcome?
a. Diabetes b. Narcolepsy c. Obesity d. Phenylketonuria
Deborah has just joined a sorority at her school. She is unsure what she should wear when she goes to eat at the sorority's dining hall. Her concern reflects Deborah's uncertainty of the
a. informal role. b. formal role. c. informal norm. d. formal norm.
Hypocretin containing neurons, located in the hypothalamus, are thought to play an important role in maintaining _________ as well as influencing eating behavior.
a. arousal
b. valence
c. sleep
d. anxiety
e. none of the above