PSYC 3083 Study Guide - System On A Chip, Neurosis
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Predictive validity addresses how well test predicts behavior it should predict if it indeed is measuring what it purports to measure: ex do people who score high on an anxiety test actually later act worried and agitated under stress, concurrent validity test correlates well with another, similar measure that has previously been validated, ex you create a new iq test and compare scores from your test & scores on another already established iq test like wais (wexler) or sb (stanford binet, if you get high correlation feel more confident your test is also measuring intelligence, construct validity involves relationship of a test to other test scores & behaviors that would be predicted by theory, ex high iq theoretically linked to high performance in school, if scores on a test of iq are shown to be related to school grades in a theoretically predicted way, then construct validity may be demonstrated.
