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Ed appears to have social phobia; the determination of this diagnosis was made by his scores on a particular measure of social fear.
 
  Scores like his have been shown in the past to be related to social phobia, as well as correlated with a variety of measures of social and occupational disability associated with social phobia. The measure Ed took would be said to have:
 
  a) High construct validity
  b) High content validity
  c) High criterion validity
  d) High statistical validity

Question 2

Michael suffers from delusions that he is a close personal friend of the Queen of England. Which explanation for his symptoms would be typical of the biological paradigm?
 
  a) Michael has an excess of libido associated with delusions.
  b) Michael had a mild concussion at some point in his development.
  c) There is an apparent genetic predisposition for delusions.
  d) The biological paradigm does not offer an explanation for delusions



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c




Metfan725

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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