According to the authors, the key criteria for evaluating personality assessments are:

A) significance and reliability.
B) significance and validity.
C) reliability and significance.
D) reliability and validity.

Answer: D
Rationale: Two particularly important concepts come into play when it comes to evaluating psychological testing: reliability and validity.

Psychology

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a. primary sex characteristics b. secondary sex characteristics c. tertiary sex characteristics d. quarternary sex characteristics

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We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. Random assignment into two groups, one that listens to music and one that studies in silence, controls for

a. the students' inherent academic ability. b. the students' use of different study strategies. c. the amount of sleep students had prior to the experiment. d. all of these.

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