Test-retest reliability is expected to be high when
a. the intervening time period between initial test and retest is at least several months.
b. the variable being assessed is a long-standing personality trait.
c. the variable being assessed is a temporary syndrome.
d. more than one of the above
Question 2
Dr. Lyons has developed an interview that assesses for a temporary psychiatric syndrome. When he collects data and calculates the one-month test-retest reliability, the figure is low. Which of the following is a possible explanation for this low figure?
a. People's symptoms changed over the one-month time frame.
b. People were bored or fatigued on one or both administrations.
c. either of the above
d. neither of the above
Megazostrodon, the first known mammal of the Triassic period.
Pulmonary function test: spirometry. (a) Normal respiratory volumes, as measured during spirometry.
End of last glacial period
Fetal Period
Embryonic Period
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle - 1973