A ____ assessment measure allows for the scores of one child to be compared to the scores of other similar children.
a. reliable
b. valid
c. standardized
d. distributed
Question 2Ideally, a measure of psychopathology should be ____.
a. changeable
b. valid
c. moderated
d. randomized
Question 3To know if a treatment would truly be useful in community settings, researchers should focus on treatment ____.
a. efficacy
b. effectiveness
c. reliability
d. validity
Question 4Treatment ____ refers to whether or not a treatment can produce changes under well-controlled conditions.
a. efficacy
b. effectiveness
c. reliability
d. validity
Question 5A researcher investigating the relationship between maternal distress and child conduct problems found that maternal distress was related to disciplinary strategies towards the child, which in turn were related to child conduct problems. In this study, disciplinary strategies are a ____.
a. comorbid variable
b. correlated variable
c. mediator variable
d. moderator variable