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This is the correlation between a child’s knowledge and a child’s attitude towards mental illness.
What is -.46?
Astro suggests that a particular study should have interviewed students from different localities rather than just from the Los Angeles area. Astro is concerned about this type of validity.
What is external?
There is a correlation between the wage people are paid and the price of vodka. The variables have this type of relationship.
What is a spurious relationship?
The 396 heterosexual people from Israel and the U.S.
What is the sample?
This is the measure of internal reliability.
What is Cronbach's alpha?
The more children know about mental illness, the _____ positive their attitudes toward mental illness.
What is less?
Tess asserts that a study shows that a family’s political affiliation causes their child’s political affiliation to change. Tess should be most concerned about this type of validity.
What is internal?
Restriction of range changes correlation coefficients this way.
What is makes the correlation smaller?
The independent variable in this study.
What is sexual orientation of the target?
This is the measure of test-retest reliability.
What is the correlation coefficient (r)?
This is the number of correlations that are statistically significant.
What is one?
A study of family and partisan socialization in America asks a stratified random sample of Americans about their political affiliations. The aforementioned information is relevant to this type of validity.
What is external?
Bobbi calculates the correlation between perceptions of student debt and amount of student debt, but she only looks at students with $5,000 of debt or less. She finds no correlation. Bobbi has this problem.
What is restriction of range?
The dependent variable in this study.
What is perceptions of the target?
What is criterion validity?
This describes the relationship between parents’ attitudes and children’s attitudes.
What is unrelated?
Belanna is concerned about whether a study has used the best possible operationalization of the variable “sexual orientation.” Belanna is concerned about this type of validity.
What is construct?
This problem is associated with temporal precedence.
What is directionality?
The operational definition of the dependent variable
What is the 20-item Likert scale?
These are the two types of validity that are determined by looking at the items on a measure.
What are face and content validity?
Ignoring the fact that none of the correlations with parent attitude are statistically significant, parent attitude is most strongly related to this variable.
What is parent knowledge?
Darmok is concerned about how weak a correlation is between two variables. Darmok is concerned about this type of validity.
What is statistical?
The more agreeable someone is, the more they emotionally disclose; but this is only true for people with high self-esteem. People with low self-esteem show no relationship between agreeableness and emotional disclosure. Self-esteem is this type of variable.
What is a moderator variable?
The type of sample used in this study.
What is convenience sample?
This is needed for the validity of a measure, but it isn't enough to guarantee the measure's validity.
What is reliability?