ch5 Flashcards
Dr. Shattuck administers the new measure and the obsessive cumpulsive inventory; the two measures are not highly related. What type of validity?
discriminant
Dr. shattuck administers the new measure and the Beck Anxiety Inventory to groups of research participants. Both measures are related. what type of validity?
concurrent
Dr. Shattuck new measure is predictive of a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder. what type of validity?
predictive
the new measure uses only ratings of “unappealing-appealing” as indicators of social anxiety about each situation. A suggestion was made to include other indicators (ratings of not anxious-anxious
content
after reviewing all of the questions in the new measure of social anxiety for teens, dr. roy, an expert on social anxiety finds the measure valid. what type of validity?
face
Dr. Shattuck administers the new measure and the Wilson Social Anxiety of Inventory to groups of research participants; the measures are related. what type of validity?
convergent
type of programming on each radio station in city. what scale of measurement?
nominal
number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week. measurement scale?
ratio
ethnic group categories of people in a neighborhood. what measurement scale?
nominal
your friend scores on an intelligence test. what measurement scale?
interval
temp in various us cities that are listed in most us newspapers. measurement scale?
interval
cell phone listed as third best on an online electronics review website. mesurement type?
ordinal
number of voters received by republican and democratic candidates for congress in your district in last election. measurement scale?
ratio
yellow walls in your office and white in your boss’s. measurement scale?
nominal
what is test-retest reliability?
correlation between scores on a measure given at one time with scores on the same measure at a different time.
