Youths Who Eventually Become Seriously and Chronically Delinquent Will More

question 55

True/False

Youths who eventually become seriously and chronically delinquent will more than likely miss opportunities to learn one or more key prosocial behaviors during childhood and adolescence.

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Definitions:

Test-retest Reliability

Test-retest reliability is a measure of the consistency of a psychological test or assessment when administered to the same individuals at two different points in time.

Alternate Forms Reliability

A measure of reliability that assesses the consistency of the results of two tests that are constructed in the same way from the same content domain.

Pearson Product-movement

A statistical technique, commonly referred to as Pearson's correlation coefficient, measuring the linear correlation between two sets of data.

Correlation Coefficient

A numerical measure that indicates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two continuous variables.