Janine Takes a Personality Test She Finds in the Latest

Multiple Choice

Janine takes a personality test she finds in the latest issue of "College Freshman" magazine. To her delight, she scores as kind, generous, and caring. When she takes the magazine over to her best friend's dorm and takes the test again along with several other first year students, she cannot understand why this time she scores high in the category of self-centered, vain, and competitive. The fact that Janine can get two very different high scores from the same test after retaking it shows a remarkable lack of _.

A) predictive validity
B) construct validity
C) internal consistency
D) test-retest reliability