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Dr. Jones reviews the literature to assess the usefulness of an inventory measuring anxiety symptoms in elderly nursing home residents. He determines that there is very low interrater reliability among expert nurses who administer this inventory.
 
  This is a threat to the inventory's ________ validity.
   a) conten
 b) concurrent
 c) criterion
 d) predictive

Question 2

You are an undergraduate psychology major trying to think of a research project. As you are walking across campus, you suddenly get an idea for a project, even though you were not actively trying to contemplate a research idea.
 
  This is an example of
   a) inspiration
 b) serendipity.
 c) a common research process.
 d) everyday occurrences.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

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