Table 3
Validity
Correlation
Singles
Reliability & Validity
100

This is the correlation between a child’s knowledge and a child’s attitude towards mental illness.

What is -.46?

100

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?

100

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?

100

The 396 heterosexual people from Israel and the U.S.

What is the sample?

100

This is the measure of internal reliability.

What is Cronbach's alpha?

200

The more children know about mental illness, the _____ positive their attitudes toward mental illness.

What is less?

200

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?

200

Restriction of range changes correlation coefficients this way.

What is makes the correlation smaller?

200

The independent variable in this study.

What is sexual orientation of the target?

200

This is the measure of test-retest reliability.

What is the correlation coefficient (r)?

300

This is the number of correlations that are statistically significant.

What is one?

300

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?

300

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?

300

The dependent variable in this study.

What is perceptions of the target?

300
Looking for a difference between known groups on a measure is used to determine this.

What is criterion validity?

400

This describes the relationship between parents’ attitudes and children’s attitudes.

What is unrelated?

400

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?

400

This problem is associated with temporal precedence.

What is directionality?

400

The operational definition of the dependent variable 

What is the 20-item Likert scale?

400

These are the two types of validity that are determined by looking at the items on a measure.

What are face and content validity?

500

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?

500

Darmok is concerned about how weak a correlation is between two variables. Darmok is concerned about this type of validity.

What is statistical?

500

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?

500

The type of sample used in this study.

What is convenience sample?

500

This is needed for the validity of a measure, but it isn't enough to guarantee the measure's validity.

What is reliability?