Dr. Tong is trying to define 'life satisfaction' and to create a test that will assess the level of a person's satisfaction with their life. She is planning to find out how well her test correlates with other tests believed to measure life satisfaction. This is an example of
A)convergent evidence.
B)divergent evidence.
C)discriminant evidence.
D)differential prediction.

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Convergent evidence refers to the degree to which a measure correlates with other measures that it is theoretically expected to correlate with. In this case, Dr. Tong is looking to see how well her life satisfaction test correlates with other tests that are believed to measure the same construct, which is an example of seeking convergent evidence.

Dr Tong Is Trying to Define 'Life Satisfaction' and to Create