Jackson appears to have social phobia. This diagnosis was made by looking at his scores on a particular measure of social fear.
Scores like his in the past have been shown 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 Jackson took would be said to have
a) high construct validity.
b) high content validity.
c) high criterion validity.
d) high statistical validity.
Question 2
A researcher interested in the health problems of people with schizophrenia interviews only those people
diagnosed with the disorder who are in an inpatient facility. The most glaring weakness in this study is
A) the absence of correlational statistics.
B) nonrepresentative sampling.
C) the failure to use DSM-IV criteria for health problems.
D) having an inappropriate control group.
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