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6. Which type of validity is regarded as the most important way to support construct validity?

  • Discriminant validity
  • Criterion validity
  • Face validity
  • Convergent validity

7. What is the definition of reliability?

  • The assessment device
  • The reproducibility of the measurement
  • Whether what you're measuring is what you want to measure
  • The measurement of personality

8. Lizzie wants to look at the relative strength with which female and male are associated with family vs career roles. What is the best test to use?

  • IAT
  • Interview
  • Questionnaire
  • Behavioural observation

9. Why do we use personality as a concept?

  • To convey that whatever a person thinks/feels/does comes from within
  • All three
  • To convey a sense of consistency/continuity about a person
  • To convey that key qualities can summarise what a person is like

10. Which type of reliability measures the stability of a test over time?

  • Predictive reliability
  • Test-retest reliability
  • Inter-rater reliability
  • Split-half reliability

11. Which type of reliability measures the extent to which all parts of the test contribute equally to what is being measured?

  • Predictive reliability
  • Split-half reliability
  • Inter-rater reliability
  • Test-retest reliability

12. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  • Theories help to explain things that are known
  • Theories benefit from having lots of assumptions/concepts
  • Theories are a set of ideas aLiut that class of events
  • Theories help to predict possibilities that haven't yet been examined

13. Which of the following is NOT a type of reliability?

  • Inter-rater reliability
  • Test-retest reliability
  • Independent reliability
  • Internal reliability

14. Criterion validity is the most important kind of validity. True or false?

  • True
  • False - Construct validity is
  • False - Discriminant validity is
  • True - however it depends on the sample size

15. What are the TWO fundamental themes of personality psychology?

  • Trait functioning & Intrapersonal functioning
  • Psychoanalysis & Individual differencse
  • Individual differences & Intrapersonal functioning
  • Individual differences & Trait functioning

16. Face, criterion, construct, convergent and discriminant are all types of what?

  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Operational definitions
  • Self report measures