A Team of Consumer Psychologists Is Interested in Conducting Research

question 21

Multiple Choice

A team of consumer psychologists is interested in conducting research to test the palatability of Papa John's Pizza (PJP) ,A PJP Palatability Test is developed on the basis of the opinions of a sample of prison inmates sentenced to life in prison.These same inmates are then used to validate a paper-and-pencil "PJP Palatability Survey." What error has been committed by the researchers?

• A) The researchers used an inappropriate population to test.
• B) The test validation was invalid due to criterion contamination.
• C) Convergent evidence was confused with discriminant evidence.
• D) A Constitutional prohibition against subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment was violated

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