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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Anne Anastasi
placebo effect
Rorschach Inkblot Test
2. Consist of vertical bars in which the sides of the vertical bars touch - useful for discrete variables that have clear boundaries - interval variables in which there is some order
histogram
Experimenter bias
predictive value
Correlational relationships
3. How a researcher attempts to examine a hypothesis - different questions call for different approaches - some approaches are more scientific than others
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
frequency polygon
research design
Frequency distributions (+variables)
4. The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable
predictive value
ANOVA/analysis of variance
histogram
median
5. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age
Word Association Test
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
ratio variables
cohort-sequential design
6. Revised Binet'S version - used with children - organized by age level - Best known predictor of future academic achievement
quasi-experimental design
variance (calculation)
Intelligence
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
7. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety
Two-way ANOVA
Cross validation
Lie detector tests
Internal validity
8. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Lewis Terman
Field study
9. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured
Construct validity
Factorial analysis of variance
Population & related
Content validity
10. Inactive substance or condition disguised as a treatment substance or condition - used to form control group
bar graph
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
placebo
11. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution
between subject
Learn the shape of different distributions
Frequency distributions (+variables)
Two-way ANOVA
12. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated
Selective attrition
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
Nonequivalent control group
Anne Anastasi
13. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
External validity (+types)
Split-half reliability
14. Used when an experiment involves more than one independent variable - can separate the effects of different levels of different variables - can isolate main effects - can identify interaction effects - ex: studying effect of brain lesion on problem s
Julian Rotter
variance (calculation)
Factorial analysis of variance
cohort-sequential design
15. 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
Graphs (types)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
16. For ranks; determining the line that describes a linear relationship
Lie detector tests
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Spearman r correlation coefficient
17. Allow generalization from sample to population - statistics (sample) - parameters (population): use statistics to estimate parameters
Inferential statistics
Face validity
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
range
18. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point
between subject
Word Association Test
Graphs (types)
interval variables
19. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it
Intelligence
Frequency distributions (+variables)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
External validity (+types)
20. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face
Validity (+types)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Longitudinal design
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
21. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed
Continuous data
Factorial analysis of variance
Hawthorne effect
Rosenthal effect
22. (Mental age/chronological age)/100 - Highest age = 16
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23. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups
ANOVA/analysis of variance
Reactance
Walter Mischel
Acquiescence
24. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Anne Anastasi
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
25. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable
Experimental design
Graphs (types)
within subject
quasi-experimental design
26. 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
Pearson r correlation coefficient
Projective tests (+types)
Inferential statistics
range
27. When subjects act in ways they think experimenter wants or expects
Cross validation
Charles Spearmen
social desirability
Demand characteristic
28. Used most commonly on standardized test
Walter Mischel
percentiles
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Draw-A-Person Test
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
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Vocational tests
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
30. Rosenthal effect; researchers see what they want to see; minimized in double-blind
cross-sectional design
Experimenter bias
Fluid intelligence
median
31. Numerically calculating and expressing correlation - r range -1 to +1 - 0 = no relationship
Selective attrition
Pearson r correlation coefficient
Face validity
cross-sectional design
32. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
Correlational relationships
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
stratified sampling
variance (calculation)
33. 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
Linear regression
Julian Rotter
confounding variable
Descriptive statistics (+types)
34. Might show how often different variables appear; nominal - ordinal - interval - ratio (real zero)
Frequency distributions (+variables)
median
Reactance
Julian Rotter
35. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period
between subject
Z-scores
Validity (+types)
cohort effect
36. 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
cohort effect
between subject
social desirability
Q-sort/measure
37. 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
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
social desirability
placebo effect
Cross validation
38. Does not control - but examines how independent variable affects it
One-way ANOVA
Concurrent validity
dependent variable
range
39. Not to diagnose depression but assess severity of depressive symptoms; used by researcher or clinician to track course of depressive symptoms
Alfred Binet
Two-way ANOVA
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Learn the shape of different distributions
40. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable
Illusory correlation
Internal validity
Rorschach Inkblot Test
generalizability
41. 34.13% - 13.59% - 2.02% - 0.26% and - +3 99.74% - +2 97.72% - +1 84.13% - 0 50.00% - -1 15.87% - -2 2.28% - -3 0.26%
between subject
IQ Binet'S equation
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
42. The most frequently occurring value
Q-sort/measure
Z-scores
mode
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
43. 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 -
Item analysis (reliability)
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Chi-square test
T-score
44. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis
median
Fluid intelligence
Vocational tests
Split-half reliability
45. How the score are spread out overall
IQ Binet'S equation
Variability
cross-sectional design
One-way ANOVA
46. 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
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Longitudinal design
Inferential statistics
Illusory correlation
47. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist
Illusory correlation
Null hypothesis
Demand characteristic
Internal validity
48. Tests whether at least 2 groups co-vary - can adjust for preexisting differences between groups
Scientific approach
Crystallized intelligence
Test-retest reliability
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
49. 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
placebo effect
standard error of mean
Nonequivalent control group
confounding variable
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
Projective tests (+types)
Linear regression
Curvilinear relationship
Standard normal distributions