Carmine Is Conducting a Study Examining Intelligence and Respect for Others

question 64

Multiple Choice

Carmine is conducting a study examining intelligence and respect for others. She has read through the literature and these two variables do not theoretically overlap. She wants to make sure that the measures she is using to examine each variable do not correlate with each other. What type of validity is she concerned with?

• A) face validity
• B) content validity
• C) convergent validity
• D) discriminant validity

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