Juan is given a vocational-interest test and is then asked to attempt the same test a week later. The test administrator wants to measure the ___________ of the test
a. content validity
b. test-retest reliability
c. alternate-forms reliability
d. criterion validity
Answer: b
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Dan has bizarre, unconvincing delusions of persecution and grandeur as well as auditory hallucinations. He would most likely be diagnosed with
a. multiple personalities. b. schizophrenia. c. delusional disorder. d. dissociative disorder.
Darley and Gross (1983) conducted a study in which they asked participants to evaluate the intellectual ability of a nine-year-old named "Hannah.". Some participants were led to believe that she came from a high socioeconomic (SES) background? others were led to believe she came from a low SES background. Which statement about this study is accurate? a. Only for perceivers who actually met
the target (i.e., Hannah) in person did expectation influence perceptions. b. Perceivers' expectations determined the way they behaved toward the target, which in turn influenced thetarget's behavior. c. Perceivers' expectations led them to fail to notice clear limitations of the target's actual performance. d. Perceivers' expectations affected their perceptions of the target's performance, even when that performancewas identical across conditions.