Professor Plum Devises a New Personality Test and Administers It

question 129

Multiple Choice

Professor Plum devises a new personality test and administers it to a large and representative group of people, finding a wide distribution of scores on the test. Two months later he administers a second form of the same test to the same people and finds that most people receive almost the same score they had the first time. He should conclude that the test has

• A) high reliability and high validity.
• B) high reliability and unknown validity.
• C) unknown reliability and high validity.
• D) unknown reliability and unknown validity.

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Definitions:

Attitude Predicts Behavior

The theory that an individual's attitudes, feelings, and beliefs about an object or event can influence how they will behave toward it.

Personal Relevance

The degree to which something is pertinent or significantly related to an individual's life or interests.

Memory Access

involves the processes by which the information stored in memory is retrieved.

Specificity

The quality of being clearly defined or specific, often used to describe the precise nature of something such as an instruction, task, or condition.