Julia Takes a New Psychological Test Several Times and Gets

question 173

Multiple Choice

Julia takes a new psychological test several times and gets the same score every time she takes it. Other people also find that whatever their first score is, they continue to get that same score every time they take the test. We can conclude that this test has

• A) high validity.
• B) low utility.
• C) high reliability.
• D) both high reliability and high validity.

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Definitions:

Broca's Area

An area situated in the dominant hemisphere's frontal lobe, associated with the production of speech.

Wernicke's Area

A region of the brain associated with the comprehension of language, located in the posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant hemisphere.

Language Comprehension

The ability to understand spoken, written, or signed language.

Speech Production

The process by which humans produce sounds that combine to form language, involving respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, and neural mechanisms.