PSYC 7312 - Chp 5

Jenny designed a measure that is accurate at measuring the current skills of the participants, what type of validity is this?

What three factors make up the 'validity picture'

• content-description

• criterion prediction

• construct identification

• All of the above.

How well a test measures the construct it is meant to measure.

• Concurrent validity.

• Construct validity.

• Face validity.

Can a measure ever be valid without being reliable?

• Yes, they are two separate things.

• No, validity is directly related to reliability.

• No, reliability is a necessary pre-condition for validity.

• Both B and C.

What are the two types of criterion-prediction validity

Why is construct validity important in psychology?

• It is not, the constructs are clear and concrete and so you already know that the test is measuring what it is supposed to.

• The constructs are abstract and can't be measured directly, so you need to know the test is measuring what it is supposed to be.

• I have no clue.

Content-description is the ____ phase in deciding whether a measure is valid, and consists of _____ and _____.

• Second /

  Face validity/

  content validity.

• Third /

  Face validity/

  content validity.

• First/

  Face validity/

  content validity.

• First /

  Face validity/

  construct validity.

Tibz is designing a measure that will be used to forecast the future behaviour of the applicants, this measure will have

• Concurrent validity.

• Predictive validity.

• Validity generalisation.

• None of the above.

If a variable, such a gender, continually alters the relationship between sleep (independent variable) and mood (dependent variable), then gender can be seen as a ...

• Predictor variable.

• Criterion variable.

• Moderator variable.

• None of the above.

Aubrey is using a measure that will be able to distinguish between groups of professionals that are known to have different skills and characteristics. The ability for the measure to tell these groups apart is known as?