Answered: When you want to establish divergent…

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

5th Edition

ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Chapter1: The Science Of Psychology

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When you want to establish divergent validity, you need to make sure that:

you have two tests that measure the same traits and do not correlate with each other

you have two tests that measure the same traits and correlate highly with each other

you have two tests that measure different traits and do not correlate with each other

you have two tests that measure different traits and correlate highly with each other

2. Jun is using multiple assessment tools in order to gain an understanding of his patient's overall psychological wellbeing. He has already been administered a symptom checklist and an additional diagnostic test for abnormality. Now, he wants to use another clinical test but is unsure if it could provide new information. What Jun might be primarily concerned about is:

if the new test could provide incremental validity

if the new test could provide more reliable estimates than the rest

if the new test has more dimensions in its items that the rest

if the new test could provide more validity evidence