RESEARCH STUDY 5.2
Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions and it takes 20 minutes to complete.
-Refer to Research Study 5.2 above to answer the following question. To test his measure,Dr.Sheffield gives his measure to a group of his clients and at the same time measures how many times they have been gambling in the past month.He predicts that clients who score higher on his measure will also report gambling more times in the past month.This procedure is meant to provide evidence for which of the following?

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Concurrent validity is demonstrated when a measure correlates well with a criterion measured at the same time. Dr. Sheffield is testing if his measure correlates with the number of times clients have gambled in the past month, which is a concurrent measure.

RESEARCH STUDY 5.2 Dr. Sheffield Is a Clinical Psychologist Who Specializes in Treating