Jenny reads the following headline on an online article: "If You're Sexist, People Will Think You're Racist, and Vice Versa." (This headline is based on a study conducted by Sanchez and colleagues, 2017.) This study found that members of stigmatized groups are threatened by prejudice directed at other stigmatized groups. Their results showed that White women can be threatened by racism, and men of color threatened by sexism, and that these perceptions made participants expect unfair treatment.
Which of the following questions assesses the construct validity of this study?
A)Would this research generalize to children?
B)Did the researchers establish temporal precedence?
C)How did the researchers measure expectations of unfair treatment?
D)How big was the effect of perceived discrimination?

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The question about how the researchers measured expectations of unfair treatment speaks directly to the construct validity of the study. It evaluates whether the study was actually measuring what it claimed to measure (perceptions of bias and discrimination).

Answer: D 
 The question about the size of the effect of perceived discrimination speaks to the internal validity of the study. It aims to evaluate the strength of the relationship between sexism and racism and whether it's statistically significant.

Choice A does not address construct validity or any other aspect of validity or reliability. 
Choice B pertains to establishing temporal precedence, which is necessary for inferring causality. However, it does not address construct validity.

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