Jeremy Experiences So Much Anxiety About Taking the Elevator That

question 133

Multiple Choice

Jeremy experiences so much anxiety about taking the elevator that he climbs 10 flights of stairs to get to his office each workday. Jeremy appears to suffer from

• A) post-traumatic stress disorder.
• B) specific phobia.
• C) bipolar disorder.
• D) obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Concurrent Validity

The extent to which test scores correlate with scores on an established test of the same skill or knowledge area, taken at the same time.

Discriminant Validity

A measure of the degree to which a test or tool is capable of distinguishing between different constructs or phenomena.

Construct Validity

The extent to which a test accurately measures the theoretical, non-observable construct or trait it is intended to assess.

Correlation

A statistical measure that describes the extent to which two variables change together.