Dr Sheffield Is a Clinical Psychologist Who Specializes in Treating

question 51

Multiple Choice

Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions, and it takes 20 minutes to complete.
To test his measure, Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to a group of people in Gamblers Anonymous (GA) and another group in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) . He finds that people in the GA group have higher scores on his new measure than people in the AA group. Why did Dr. Sheffield do this?

• A)To obtain evidence for face validity
• B)To obtain evidence for content validity
• C)To obtain evidence for convergent validity
• D)To obtain evidence for criterion validity

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