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A recent study reported about a new instrument that measures students' motivation for challenging academic tasks. In the study the instrument had been given to a number of children at the beginning of their academic year. After reading the study, Susan wondered if students' responses would be different at the end of the academic year. She decides to conduct a study that administers the instrument several times over the course of an academic year and measures the correlation across administrations. Susan has addressed a concern with which of the following types of reliability?


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Psychodynamic Theory

A viewpoint in psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions.

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Dream Interpretation

The therapeutic technique of uncovering the hidden meaning of dreams.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for concepts like the collective unconscious and archetypes.

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