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Ethan Whitlow
on Dec 28, 2024Verified
Suppose you are planning to conduct a study to look at the effect of pet ownership on empathy, but you cannot find any good measures of empathy (all of the measures that you find seem to fall short of your understanding of what empathy is or to miss the mark completely) . Unless you can find a measure that you are satisfied with, your research may end up being low in ____.
A) internal validity
B) external validity
C) construct validity of the cause
D) construct validity of the effect
Construct Validity
The extent to which a test or instrument measures the theoretical construct it is intended to measure.
Measures Of Empathy
tools or assessments used to evaluate an individual's capacity to understand and share the feelings of another person.
- Identify the importance of construct validity in ensuring that research measures what it intends to.
Verified Answer
AN
Learning Objectives
- Identify the importance of construct validity in ensuring that research measures what it intends to.
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