Convergent validity

true language, then public education should elaborate on the fact that being Deaf and using ASL does not reduce a person’s value. However, if the public does not consider ASL as a true language, then education should focus on the characteristics and validity of ASL as a true language. Additionally, people in educational settings…

Routine Activities Theory could be made if “scholars and practitioners begin to focus on (a) the interaction of lifestyle with other factors, such as gender or delinquent values; (b) virtual places and online routine activities; and (c) the use of convergent…

The importance of patient’s motive to do treatment helped me understand through personality theory and research to successfully know methods for the patient to be treated mentally and physically. The treatment for patient is not only taking the prescription, but the patient’s motivation to be treated as well. Patient’s motivation to take treatment often return to their suitable way of living. Treatments shown to be effective with patients that are motivated and can be improved through…

Some advantages of the BAI include: it is quick and easy to administer and score; the 21 questions are accurate predictors of anxiety disorders (as noted in the validity portion of this paper); it is a useful tool to determine client baselines; it can be helpful for ongoing assessment of the client 's symptomatology; the BAI better discriminates anxiety symptoms from depression when compared to other anxiety measures…

years at 5 Korean universities. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), correlations, and one-way ANOVAs were conducted for data analyses. The final sample size comprised 447 responses. The 3-factor model of the JSE-HPS was confirmed by CFA and the convergent validity was also supported by its correlations with the IRI subscales. The overall mean score was 80.3.Pharmacy students enrolled in women's or private universities reported significantly higher levels of overall empathy than their…

Convergent Thinking Convergent thinking is a thinking technique in which ideas are examined for logical validity. (Collins English Dictionary, n.d.) Some ideas generated from the divergent thinking may not be workable ideas or more than one of the ideas could be used to solve the problem or issue. Before…

Philosopher Karl Popper suggested that it is impossible to prove a scientific theory true using induction, since it is hard to find evidence that will assure us that contrary evidence will not be traced. To argue this, Karl Popper suggested that proper science is accomplished by a method he referred to as deduction. Deduction involves the process of falsification. Falsification is a particular specialized aspect of hypothesis testing. The falsification process generally involves the process of…

Creativity is the generation of imaginative new ideas, involving a radical newness innovation or solution to a problem, or a radical reformulation of problems, or an integration of existing knowledge in a different way. The created item may be intangible (scientific theory, musical composition, and joke) or an original physical object (invention, literary work, architecture, painting). Creativity involves use of everyday capacities such as the association of ideas, memory, perception, analogical…

Introduction: The advancement in the internet technologies (2G, 3G) as well as the mobile communication industry along with the increasing popularity of mobile communication devices such as smart phones, tablets, net books and laptops, has led to the emergence of mobile commerce as an alternative business model. Mobile phone today is considered as a lifestyle device and not just a tool to connect (Thakur & Srivastava, 2012). Its functionality has gone far beyond the function of merely connecting…

presents their relationship to global psychopathology. The study of reliability and validity of the test was determined by testing the four subscale of the test which formed a normal curve. Positive and negative were inversely correlated suggesting that they represent mutually exclusive constructs. This was done using 103 schizophrenics. Review of studies involving PANSS provide evidence based criterion relating to validity and…