What is NOT likely to undermine the reliability of a survey measure
aggregation of responses to different items
According to Cronbach and Meehl's (1955) terminology, psychological attributes such as intelligence and sociability are examples of ________, whereas an IQ test and extraversion questionnaire are both examples of specific tests or measurements.
Constructs
If test scores go down as anxiety goes up, then....
test scores and anxiety are negatively correlated
The most touted advantage of the experimental method is that
it allows the assessment of causality
Reliability is ____ for validity.
a necessary but not sufficient condition
Using the Binomial Effect Size Display, if there is a correlation of .30 between drinking alcohol and the likelihood of having a car accident, then out of 100 people who have been drinking, you would expect ________ of them to have an accident.
65
Which formula in psychometrics quantifies the principle of aggregation?
Spearman-Brown
The number between -1 and +1 that indexes the linear association between any two variables is called
the correlation coefficient
The most important and generally useful way to enhance reliability is to