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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period






10. Mean is 0 - and SD=1 - This with Z-score allow you to compare one person'S score on two different distributions






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






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






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






14. Neither purely descriptive nor purely inferential - can only show relationship - not causality - positive and negative correlation






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






23. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. Used when n-cases in a sample are classified into categories or cells - tell us whether the groups are significantly different in size - look at the pattern or distributions - not difference between mean - ex:intro psych class categorized into race -






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






29. 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






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

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






32. 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






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






34. For children 6-16






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Knowing how to do something






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated






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