Chapter 5 Exercises: Set B
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1. Making responses anonymous will be equally effective in reducing both social desirability bias and bias due to following demand characteristics.
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a. True
b. False
2. Internal consistency helps make the case that your measure has discriminant validity.
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a. True
b. False
3. Internal consistency helps make the case that your measure has construct validity.
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a. True
b. False
4. Content validity is important for knowledge tests.
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a. True
b. False
5. Shortening a test would probably harm its content validity.
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a. True
b. False
6. Shortening a test would probably harm its internal consistency.
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a. True
b. False
7. Internal consistency may be assessed by split-half reliability coefficients.
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a. True
b. False
8. If lovers score higher on a "love" test than strangers, the love test has discriminant validity.
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a. True
b. False
9. If friends do not score higher on a "love" test than strangers, the test has some discriminant validity.
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a. True
b. False
10. A test of empathy that did not correlate with intelligence would have convergent validity.
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a. True
b. False
11. If therapists with high scores on an empathy test have better success rates than therapists with lower scores, then the empathy test has convergent validity.
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a. True
b. False
12. If a test over Chapters 1, 2, and 3 has 30 questions on Chapter 1, 15 questions on Chapter 2, and only 5 questions on Chapter 3, we might suspect that the test lacked content validity.
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a. True
b. False
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