A test maker wants to show that scores on her new measure of schizophrenia are correlated with professional psychologists' ratings of schizophrenia. She is interested in establishing
A) face validity.
B) congruent validity.
C) discriminant validity.
D) behavioral validation.

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Congruent validity is concerned with whether a measure correlates well with other measures that are theoretically or empirically related to it. In this case, the test maker wants to establish a correlation between her new measure of schizophrenia and professional psychologists' ratings of schizophrenia, which are expected to be closely related. Therefore, the best choice is B, congruent validity. Face validity refers to whether a scale appears to be measuring what it is intended to measure, discriminant validity refers to whether a measure is not highly correlated with measures it is not supposed to be related to, and behavioral validation refers to whether scores on a measure can predict relevant outcomes, which are not directly relevant to the current question.

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