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Caleb Garcia
on Oct 21, 2024
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Professor Plum devises a new personality test and administers it to a large and representative group of people, finding a wide distribution of scores on the test. Two months later he administers a second form of the same test to the same people and finds that most people receive almost the same score they had the first time. He should conclude that the test has
A) high reliability and high validity.
B) high reliability and unknown validity.
C) unknown reliability and high validity.
D) unknown reliability and unknown validity.
Unknown Validity
A term indicating that the effectiveness, accuracy, or effect of something cannot be verified or confirmed.
Wide Distribution
The extensive spreading of something, such as a product, phenomenon, or piece of information, across a large area or amongst a large number of people.
- Become familiar with the idea of reliability within psychological testing and the approaches to measure it.
- Comprehend the role of validity and reliability in enhancing the practical use of an assessment.
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AR
Learning Objectives
- Become familiar with the idea of reliability within psychological testing and the approaches to measure it.
- Comprehend the role of validity and reliability in enhancing the practical use of an assessment.