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Multiple Choice Questions

• Ecological validity is a judgment of how well a test measures what it intends to measure, specifically in a particular environment and within certain frequency limits, at the time and place the variable is measured.
• Studies of ecological validity are typically conducted in an environment similar to where the behavior occurs.
• Tweets of die-hard fans of Justin Bieber after a performance can be expected to reflect leniency and generosity; an error.
• Psychotherapists' judgments of supervisees' competence can be reasonably accurate given subsequent ratings.
• To improve rating judgments, raters should be certified and at least three should assess.
• Worrying can lead to positive and negative outcomes.
• Worrying about trivial versus momentous consequences is not typically distinguished in current measures of individual differences.
• Knowing how and why someone is worrying has diagnostic value for therapeutic use. Also, learning about the worrying life cycle may help prevent future worry.
• The first step in developing the CUWQ was defining the targeted construct and creating an item pool.
• To ensure content validity, the CUWQ items needed to reflect characteristics of worry.
• The final form of the CUWQ contained 18 items.
• The tendency to worry is positively related to trait anxiety.
• The tendency to worry is negatively related to one's punctuality.
• 98 Korean foreign exchange students studying at New York University, 398 convicted felons in the federal prison system, 698 residents of South Florida trailer park during hurricane season, and 998 Australian residents of wildfire prone areas were the subjects in a preliminary study.
• The final version of the CUWQ was assisted in its development by the analysis of variance method.
• The variable "amount of worry" was quantified using the Worry Domains Questionnaire and Penn State Worry questionnaires.
• Future research studies should be conducted on populations with varied cultural backgrounds.
• Each of the three approaches to validity assessment should be viewed as evidence that contributes to the judgment of a test's overall validity.
• Validation of a test takes place through the test author or test user and involves gathering evidence of its validity.
• Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was used to illustrate the concept of how face validity is thought of by test takers.
• "It is a measure of validity that arrived at by a comprehensive analysis of how scores on the test relate to other test scores." This is a reference to construct validity.

Additional Information

• There are different approaches to assessing the validity of a test, including a traditional trinitarian model.
• There is also the matter of a test's "fairness," which is distinct from its validity and is often rooted in moral/philosophical issues, and issues of test fairness can be rooted in moral and philosophical issues.
• A test's validity may be affected by test takers, the test contents, and the evaluation process.
• Test scores may be affected by pre and post testing or due to the nature of the assessment itself.
• The validity of a test can be affected by characteristics of the sample being studied as well as the nature of items used.
• A test might be found to lack face validity if its design is unclear regarding its intended purpose to those taking the assessment.
• If a test measures what it purports to measure, it has face validity.