Ebonie is interested in measuring levels of anxiety at the same time she provides research participants a performance task. Ebonie is more concerned about a high criterion validity and therefore is interested in increasing which type of validity in her study?
A) concurrent validity
B) face validity
C) predictive validity
D) construct validity

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Concurrent validity is a measure of how well a particular test correlates with a previously validated measure taken at the same time. Since Ebonie wants to measure levels of anxiety while providing a performance task, she is interested in ensuring that her measures of anxiety accurately reflect the participants' actual anxiety levels at that specific time. Increasing concurrent validity would ensure that her anxiety measurements are accurate and can be trusted to reflect true anxiety levels concurrent with the performance task.

Ebonie Is Interested in Measuring Levels of Anxiety at the Same