A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions.She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the numbers in reverse order.A week later the children repeat this task.The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar.She concludes that this test has high

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The fact that the scores obtained by the children are similar when they take the test again after a week indicates that the test has good test-retest reliability. This means that the test is consistent and reliable over time, which is important for measuring attention span. The other options (A, B, and C) are not as relevant to the task of measuring attention span in this context.

A Psychologist Wants to Obtain a Measure of Children's Attention