Videotapes of 10-Year-Old Children Are Being Used to Determine If

question 87

Multiple Choice

Videotapes of 10-year-old children are being used to determine if their social interactions are related to the development of schizophrenia in adulthood.What type of validity is the focus of interest here?

• A)prognostic
• B)predictive
• C)concurrent
• D)test-retest

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Definitions:

Preschoolers

Young children between the ages of 3 to 5 years, typically attending preschool, a critical period for developing social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Rehearsal

Repetition—mental, behavioral, or both.

Grammar

The set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

Preoperational Stage

The second stage in Piaget’s scheme, characterized by inflexible and irreversible mental manipulation of symbols.