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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. If it is significant - same finding can be generalized to the population - use test of significant to reject null hypothesis






2. Overall range or spread - most basic measure of variability - subtracts the lowest value from the highest value in a data set






3. Frequency polygon (continuous variables) - histogram/ bar graph (discrete)






4. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests






5. Aims to match demographic characteristics to population (i.e. 50% female - etc)






6. (Mental age/chronological age)/100 - Highest age = 16

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7. The age level of a person'S functioning according to the IQ test






8. When relationship inferred when there is none - ex: many people think there is a relationship between physical and personality characteristics - when evidence show there is none






9. Give descriptive names - No order or relationship among the variables other than to separate them into groups - ex: male-female






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






11. Does not control - but examines how independent variable affects it






12. Personality measure for 'normal' / less clinical groups than MMPI - by Harrison Gough






13. 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%






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition






18. 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






19. Used most commonly on standardized test






20. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable






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






22. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world






23. Whether scores on a new measure correlate with other measures known to test the same construct; cross validation process






24. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






25. Structured - do not allow own answers; more objective than projective tests; not completely objective because most self-reported; Q-sort - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - California Personality Inventory (CPI) - Myers-Brigg Type






26. How stable measure is; test-retest - split-half






27. Fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not






28. Use correlation coefficients in order to predict one variable y from another variable x - let you define a line on graph that describes the relationship between x and y - when the least-square line or regression line is fit to the data - basically: u






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






30. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






31. 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






32. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated






33. Tests the same person at multiple time points and looks at changes within that person






34. Allow generalization from sample to population - statistics (sample) - parameters (population): use statistics to estimate parameters






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






36. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






37. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not






38. Revised Binet'S version - used with children - organized by age level - Best known predictor of future academic achievement






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






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






41. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis






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






43. Allows own answer: expression of conflicts - needs - impulses; content interpreted by administrator - some more objective than others; Rorschach Inkblot Test - Thematic Apperception Test - Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study - Word Association






44. Revised Binet scale to Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale; also studied gifted children - those with higher IQs better adjusted






45. How much variation there is among n number of scores in a distribution






46. Transformation of a z-score - mean is 50 and the SD is 10 - T=10(Z)+50






47. Tests the effects of two independent variables or treatment conditions at once






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






49. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






50. 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