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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)






2. Sorting cards into a normal distribution; each has a different statement on it about personality; to one end is 'least like self' - other is 'most like self' - and middle is neutral; factor analysis to reduce viewpoints into a few factors






3. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face






4. Attempts to eliminate/minimize these - variables in the environment that might also effect the dependent variable and blue the effect of independent variable on the dependent variable






5. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution






6. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind






7. A level of <0.05or <0.01 means that chance that seemingly significant errors are due to random variation rather than to true systematic variance is less than 5% or 1%






8. Analyses how a large group responded to each item on the measure; weeds out problematic questions with low discriminatory value; increases internal consistency






9. Naturalistic setting - less control over environment than in lab; generates more hypotheses than able to prove






10. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age






11. Measure how well you know a subject - measure past learning






12. Not intelligence tests; measure sensory and motor development of infants to identify mental retardation; poor predictors of later intelligence






13. How a researcher attempts to examine a hypothesis - different questions call for different approaches - some approaches are more scientific than others






14. Knowing a fact






15. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






16. When people agree with opposing statements; giving tacit agreement






17. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it






18. Not simple and linear - looks like a curved line - ex: arousal and perfomance - high A --> low P - Low A --> low P - medium A --> high P






19. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field






20. Neither the subject nor the experimenter know whether the subject is assigned to the treatment or the control group






21. Knowing how to do something






22. Measures the extent to which items in a measure 'hang together' and test the same thing






23. The most frequently occurring value






24. Compares 2 groups of people like an experiment - but this is used when it is not feasible or ethical to use random assignment ex: smoker vs. cancer






25. Birth order vs. intelligence; the older - the more intelligent; the more children - the less intelligent; the greater spacing - the more intelligent






26. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






27. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






28. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value






29. Attitude change in response to feeling that options are limited; e.g. dislike experiment and intentionally behaving unnaturally - or being set on a certain flavour of ice cream as soon as told it is sold out






30. Different subjects of different ages are compared - faster - easier






31. Rosenthal effect; researchers see what they want to see; minimized in double-blind






32. Personality test from Jung'S theory; 93 questions 2 answers each; 4-letter personality type - each letter 1 of 2 possible opposing characteristics: Introverted vs. Extraverted - Sensing vs. Intuition - Feeling vs. Thinking - and - Judgment vs. Percep






33. Step beyond correlations; allows not only identification of relationship between 2 variables - also make predictions






34. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed






35. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point






36. Developed concept of IQ and first intelligence test (Binet Scale)






37. Cartoons in which one person is frustrating another; asked to describe how the frustrated person responds






38. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face






39. Inactive substance or condition disguised as a treatment substance or condition - used to form control group






40. Mean of Americans is standardized to 100 - with SD 15 or 16 depending on test; correlates most with IQ of biological parents and socioeconomic status






41. Includes: testable hypothesis - reproducible experiment - operationalized definition (observable and measurable)






42. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups






43. Measure mastery in a particular area (e.g. final exam)






44. How the score are spread out overall






45. Anything that is measured such as height or depression score on a depression scale






46. Tests whether at least 2 groups co-vary - can adjust for preexisting differences between groups






47. Data that has been counted rather than measured - usually limited to whole or positive values - ex: group size - number of hospital visit - number of symptoms






48. Population --> sample/subgroup --> representative and unbiased --> achieved through random sampling --> if it'S not feasible - use convenience sampling instead or stratified sampling






49. For children 4-6






50. Not to diagnose depression but assess severity of depressive symptoms; used by researcher or clinician to track course of depressive symptoms