Question

RESEARCH STUDY: Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions.

Refer to the Research Study above to answer the following four questions.

1. If Dr. Sheffield’s measure does not actually measure pathological gambling, his measure is said to lack which of the following?

A. Validity

B. Conceptualization

C. Reliability

D. Operationalization

2. Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to his supervisor, who is also an expert in pathological gambling. His supervisor says that his measure appears to test all the components of pathological gambling, including feeling restless when attempting to stop gambling, jeopardizing jobs in order to keep gambling, and using gambling to escape from problems and a bad mood. Given this information, Dr. Sheffield’s measure has evidence of which of the following?

A. Content validity

B. Criterion validity

C. Predictive validity

D. Discriminant validity

3. To test his measure, Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to a group of people in Gamblers Anonymous (GA) and another group of people in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). He finds that people in the GA group have higher scores on his new measure than people in the AA group. This procedure is known as a:

A. Test-retest paradigm

B. Prediction paradigm

C. Known-groups paradigm

D. Group evaluation paradigm

4. To test his measure, Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to a group of his clients and at the same time measures how many times they have been gambling in the past month. He predicts that clients who score higher on his measure will also report gambling more times in the past month. This procedure is meant to provide evidence for which of the following?

A. Face validity

B. Criterion validity

C. Content validity

D. Discriminant validity

Please answer all 4 questions and explain why theyre correct

Answer 1

1. (A) Validity- Validity is a test's ability to measure what it is supposed to measure. For example, a test of Memory should measure Memory and not something else (such as Emotions). In this case, if Dr. Sheffield’s measure does not actually measure pathological gambling, his measure is said to lack VALIDITY.

2. (B) Criterion Validity- Criterion validity is the extent that a test is related to an outcome. In this case, attempt to stop GAMBLING results in RESTLESSNESS, JEOPARDIZING JOBS in order to keep gambling, and using gambling to escape from problems and a bad mood.

3. (C) Known-Groups Paradigm- Known-groups Paradigm is when a test can discriminate between two groups known to differ on the variable of interest. In this case, GAMBLERS and ALCOHOLICS are two different groups.

4. (B) Criterion Validity- Criterion validity can be divided into the concurrent and predictive validity. This is an example of Predictive Validity. Predictive validity is the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some criterion measure and gives away the Criterion Validity.