Reliability and Validity of the Paragraph Completion Test: Theoretical and Empirical Notes
- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 31 (3) , 959-962
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1972.31.3.959
Abstract
The Paragraph Completion Test has become the most widely used measure of the integrative component of conceptual complexity: namely, the ability to think in multi-conceptual terms about given stimulus domains. The test has consistently predicted complex behavioral performance in experimental settings and correlates positively with theoretically related measures of personality and cognition. Inter-rater, split-half, and preliminary test-retest reliability coefficients are also satisfactory, making the test a psychometrically sound and valid measure of complexity.Keywords
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