A Researcher Decides to Use a High School Sample to Test

question 15

Multiple Choice

A researcher decides to use a high school sample to test the relationship between her new measure of empathy and a well-established measure of interpersonal sensitivity.She finds that the two instruments are highly related,which supports the ________ of the new instrument.

• A)predictive validity
• B)content validity
• C)criterion validity
• D)face validity

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