Wei-Chin Designed a Self-Report Inventory to Measure How Intimate Partners

question 6

Multiple Choice

Wei-Chin designed a self-report inventory to measure how intimate partners express affection and hostility toward each other.The inventory is a list of positive behaviors (e.g. ,back rubs,holding hands) and negative behaviors (e.g. ,slamming doors,raising voices) .After a wide range of couples completed the inventory,Wei-Chin found that happy couples endorsed all the affection items and unhappy couples endorsed all the hostile items.Which of the following problems prevents Wei-Chin from concluding that happy couples exchange more affectionate behaviors than unhappy couples?

• A) sentiment override
• B) item-overlap problem
• C) correlation does not imply causation
• D) social desirability effect

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