A Team of Consumer Psychologists Is Interested in Conducting Research

question 89

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 death row prison inmates.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) Serving the inmates PJP was a violation of a Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

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