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When Jermain was answering a questionnaire, he noticed that all the questions concerned an unhappy mood, apathy, loss of appetite, and sleep. He concluded that the questionnaire was probably about depression. This questionnaire is said to have what kind of validity?

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face validity

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Face validity is a term that refers to tests that presents an obviousness about a theme, covering that theme in a very prominent way, making the test objectives totally transparent to the participant, allowing a proof of the relevance of that theme in social behavior or mentality of the participant. In other words, we can say that this term refers to the availability of a test. We have an example of this, in the question above, where the test obviously refers to depression, which is easily perceived by the participant.

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