Exam 13: Measuring Your Study Variables

The alpha coefficient (Cronbach's ?) is a coefficient that indicates the internal consistency of a scale by examining the correlations of different items with one another.

A key advantage of the published standardized scale over the individualized scale is that the published standardized scale has ______

According to the text, your most important guide when you are seeking a measurement tool is the ______

The tool you use to measure the client's target behavior can be ______.

The Beck Depression Inventory is an example of an individualized rating scale.

Standardized scales are tailored to the specific needs of the client.

Test-retest reliability is a test of reliability that examines whether a given tool is consistent when administered to the same group of people at two points in time.

Which of these situations would be least vulnerable to the social desirability bias?

Which of the following is true?

What do face validity and content validity mean? How would each be examined?

Which of the following would be most useful in determining the practical significance in an evaluative study?

One of the questions to consider when seeking a published standardized scale for adults is whether the tool is ______

Suppose that you have two clients in treatment, one is an adult female being treated for depression and another is a 6-year-old child being treated because of poor motivation in school. For each of these situations, indicate whether you would be inclined to seek a standardized scale for measuring client progress or develop your own individualized scale. Explain why.

In measurement, reliability refers to ______

Which of the following statements about measurement error is true?

One of the limitations of the Session Rating Scale and the Outcome Rating Scale is that they do not allow the client a great range of self-expression in describing the outcomes they seek.

Which of the following is a general type of error in measurement?

According to the text, what is one of the special challenges in measurement in evaluative research when you are evaluating the progress of a single client using a single-subject design?

If you computed the correlations between scores on one self-esteem scale and the scores on another scale, where higher scores represent higher self-esteem for both scales, you would expect to find a negative correlation coefficient.

What is the critical issue in measurement?