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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Experimenter bias
normal distribution(+characteristic)
T-score
2. Measured by the same individual taking the same test more than once
Test-retest reliability
Walter Mischel
Reactance
Frequency distributions (+variables)
3. For children 4-6
Pearson r correlation coefficient
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
Alfred Binet
Criterion-referenced tests
4. Overall range or spread - most basic measure of variability - subtracts the lowest value from the highest value in a data set
Construct validity
range
Objective tests (+types)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
5. The age level of a person'S functioning according to the IQ test
Linear regression
mental age
Experimenter bias
variance (calculation)
6. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Construct validity
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
7. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period
External validity (+types)
cohort effect
random sampling
between subject
8. When subjects do and say what they think puts them in a favorable light -ex: reporting they are not racist even if they really are
Word Association Test
Z-scores
Validity (+types)
social desirability
9. How the score are spread out overall
Variability
standard error of mean
Hawthorne effect
Face validity
10. Calculates how off the mean might be in either direction
standard error of mean
Achievement tests
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
social desirability
11. Aims to match demographic characteristics to population (i.e. 50% female - etc)
T-score
stratified sampling
normal distribution(+characteristic)
Experimenter bias
12. The most frequently occurring value
Alpha levels
Anne Anastasi
ordinal variables
mode
13. Tests the same person at multiple time points and looks at changes within that person
Nonequivalent control group
Vocational tests
within subject
Robert Zajonc
14. Tests whether the means on one outcome or dependent variable are significantly different across groups - height or level of anxiety from anxiety scale
Construct validity
interval variables
One-way ANOVA
Descriptive statistics (+types)
15. Experimenter bias; researchers see what they want to see; minimized in double-blind
double-blind experiment
Q-sort/measure
Rosenthal effect
range
16. Includes: testable hypothesis - reproducible experiment - operationalized definition (observable and measurable)
Scientific approach
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
Crystallized intelligence
17. Knowing how to do something
Fluid intelligence
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
median
Graphs (types)
18. Transformation of a z-score - mean is 50 and the SD is 10 - T=10(Z)+50
bar graph
Inferential statistics
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
T-score
19. Revised Binet'S version - used with children - organized by age level - Best known predictor of future academic achievement
placebo effect
cohort-sequential design
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
20. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Field study
External validity (+types)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
21. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world
generalizability
ANOVA/analysis of variance
Fluid intelligence
independent variable
22. Like a histogram except that the vertical bars do not touch - various columns are separated by space
mental age
Robert Zajonc
Aptitude tests
bar graph
23. I when incorrectly reject null - thought significant but chance; II when incorrectly accept null - thought chance but significant
predictive value
ratio variables
Type I and II errors
Intelligence
24. Process in testing concurrent validity
Anne Anastasi
Illusory correlation
placebo
Cross validation
25. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution
Criterion-referenced tests
Learn the shape of different distributions
Graphs (types)
Spearman r correlation coefficient
26. Originally to determine mental illness - now for personality; more clinical than CPI; 550 T/F/unsure questions (e.g. 'I would like to ride a horse'); discriminates between disorders; high validity because highly discriminatory items and 3 validity sc
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
independent variable
Lie detector tests
cohort-sequential design
27. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
independent variable
Curvilinear relationship
quasi-experimental design
28. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Vocational tests
independent variable
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
29. (Mental age/chronological age)/100 - Highest age = 16
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30. 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
Vocational tests
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Objective tests (+types)
31. Knowing a fact
Crystallized intelligence
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
quasi-experimental design
social desirability
32. 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
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
Curvilinear relationship
interval variables
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
33. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution
normal distribution(+characteristic)
Alfred Binet
social desirability
Alpha levels
34. Used most commonly on standardized test
percentiles
Content validity
random sampling
Selective attrition
35. Developed concept of IQ and first intelligence test (Binet Scale)
Alfred Binet
statistically significant
Crystallized intelligence
standard error of mean
36. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data
statistics
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Achievement tests
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
37. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
placebo effect
Chi-square test
standard error of mean
38. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind
percentiles
mode
Robert Zajonc
Word Association Test
39. Naturalistic setting - less control over environment than in lab; generates more hypotheses than able to prove
Illusory correlation
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Field study
40. Mean is 0 - and SD=1 - This with Z-score allow you to compare one person'S score on two different distributions
Projective tests (+types)
Standard normal distributions
dependent variable
statistically significant
41. Tests the effects of two independent variables or treatment conditions at once
dependent variable
normal distribution(+characteristic)
Lewis Terman
Two-way ANOVA
42. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it
Intelligence
statistics
Internal validity
Statistical regression
43. The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
predictive value
Robert Zajonc
placebo
44. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age
standard deviation (calculation)
ratio variables
Criterion-referenced tests
Factorial analysis of variance
45. Not to diagnose depression but assess severity of depressive symptoms; used by researcher or clinician to track course of depressive symptoms
standard deviation (calculation)
cohort-sequential design
Anne Anastasi
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
46. Number of SD a score is from the mean - For normal distribution - (-3 to +3)
Construct validity
Domain-referenced tests
Z-scores
Type I and II errors
47. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point
variance (calculation)
Type I and II errors
Two-way ANOVA
between subject
48. Studying the same objects at different points in the lifespan and provides better - more valid results than most other methods - costly - time commitment
interval variables
Achievement tests
Longitudinal design
placebo effect
49. Neither the subject nor the experimenter know whether the subject is assigned to the treatment or the control group
bar graph
double-blind experiment
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
50. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
normal distribution(+characteristic)
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Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Reliability (+types)
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