Researchers Included Items on Sports and Recent Events on a Scale

question 145

Multiple Choice

Researchers included items on sports and recent events on a scale about political interests. They did this in an effort to mislead the participants as to the purpose of the survey. The sports and recent event items were:

• A) biased items.
• B) face valid items.
• C) discriminant items.
• D) distractor items.

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