When Researchers Are Interested in Predicting Some Future Behavior Based

Multiple Choice

When researchers are interested in predicting some future behavior based on a person's score on some other variable, they should:

A) construct several criterion variables.
B) construct a scatterplot in addition to looking at the magnitude of the correlation coefficient.
C) demonstrate that there is a reasonably high correlation between the criterion and predictor variables.
D) demonstrate that the correlation coefficient of the known and the unknown variable is closer to -1.00.