Assessing the construct validity of aberrant salience

Assessing the Construct Validity of Aberrant Salience

We sought to validate the psychometric properties of a recently developed paradigm that aims to measure salience attribution processes proposed to contribute to positive psychotic symptoms, the Salience Attribution Test (SAT). The "aberrant salience" measure from the SAT showed good face validity in previous results, with elevated scores both in high-schizotypy individuals, and in patients with...

Validating the construct of aberrant salience in schizophrenia — Behavioral evidence for an automatic process

Suspecting significance behind ordinary events is a common feature in psychosis and it is assumed to occur due to aberrant salience attribution. The Salience Attribution Test (SAT; Roiser et al., 2009) measures aberrant salience as a bias towards one out of two equally reinforced cue features as opposed to adaptive salience towards features indicating high reinforcement. This is the first study...

Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Construct Validity

Measurement Validity Types Idea of Construct Validity Convergent & Discriminant Validity Threats to Construct Validity The Nomological Network The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix Pattern Matching for Construct Validity Construct validity refers to the degree to which inferences can legitimately be made from the operationalizations in your study to the theoretical constructs on which those operati...

On the Construct Validity of the Reading Section of the University of Tehran English Proficiency Test

University of Tehran administers a test known as The University of Tehran English Proficiency Test (the UTEPT) to PhD candidates on a yearly basis. By definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. The validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (Roever, 2001). As Mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...