KEY TERMS
behavioral
validation (p. 37)
case study
method (p. 28)
congruent
validity (p. 36)
construct
validity (p. 35)correlation
coefficient (p. 31)
dependent
variable (p. 23)
discriminant
validity (p. 36)
face validity (p. 36)
hypothesis (p. 21)independent
variable (p. 22)
internal
consistency (p. 35)
manipulated indepen-
dent variable (p. 25)
nonmanipulated
independent
variable (p. 25)reliability (p. 34)
statistical
significance (p. 31)
theory (p. 20)
validity (p. 35)
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