Dr. Foster creates and administers a mental rotation task to a set of college students at the start of the Fall semester to assess their spatial ability. He also has the students complete other widely-used measures of spatial ability and asks them to navigate through a physical maze using a map. He finds that students’ scores on the mental rotation task are strongly positively related to their scores on the other spatial ability measures and predicts their ability to successfully navigate through the maze. This suggests that the mental rotation task has high____________.
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