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Ursula Believes That Traits and Abilities as Fixed at Birth

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Ursula believes that traits and abilities as fixed at birth and remain the same no matter what. By contrast, Yuri believes that people develop their traits and abilities across time, and that they can become better and better with practice. Social psychologists would say that Ursula is a(n) ____ while Yuri is a(n) ____.


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Validity

The extent to which a test, tool, or study accurately measures what it intends to measure.

WAIS

Stands for Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, which is a test designed to measure cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents.

Reliability

The degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results over time or across different observers.

Factor Analysis

A statistical technique applied to explain the variation among observed, correlated variables through a smaller set of unseen variables known as factors.

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