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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. Organize data by showing it in a meaningful way; do not allow conclusions to be drawn beyond the sample; percentiles - frequency distributions - graphs - measures of central tendency - variability






2. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






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






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






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






6. 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






7. Mathematically combines and summarizes overall effects or findings for a topic; best known for consolidating effectiveness of psychotherapy - can calculate overall effect size or conclusion drawn from a collection of studies; needed when conflicting






8. Critical of personality trait-theory and personality tests; felt situations (not traits) decide actions






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






10. Knowing a fact






11. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






13. 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






14. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random






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






16. I when incorrectly reject null - thought significant but chance; II when incorrectly accept null - thought chance but significant






17. Draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them






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






20. Most commonly used for adults 16+ - organized by subtests with subscales and identify problem areas; current is WAIS-IV






21. 31 cards (1 blank and 30 pictures) with interpersonal scenes (2 people facing each other); subject tells story about each which reveals aspects of personality; often measure need for achievement; interpreting terms include needs - press - personology






22. Interest in the effect of independent variable on the dependent variable - often manipulated by applying it in experimental or treatment condition and withholding it from control condition






23. Capable of showing order and pacing because equal spaces lie between the values - do not include real zero - ex: temperature






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






25. Numerically calculating and expressing correlation - r range -1 to +1 - 0 = no relationship






26. Knowing how to do something






27. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






28. 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






29. 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%






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Mean (standard error of mean) - median mode; normal and platykuric: equal; positively skewed: mode - med - mean; negatively skewed: mean - med - mode; bimodal: equal mean and med - 2 modes






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






37. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety






38. For children 6-16






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






40. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Has plotted points connected by lines - used to plot variables that are continuous (categories without clear boundaries)






48. 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






49. Order - variables need to be arranged by order (not necessarily equally spaced) - ex: maranthon finishers






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