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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. 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






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






3. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






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






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






6. Calculates how off the mean might be in either direction






7. 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






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






9. Knowing a fact






10. Process in testing concurrent validity






11. The most frequently occurring value






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






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






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






15. Every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample






16. For children 6-16






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






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






19. Knowing how to do something






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






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






27. When subjects act in ways they think experimenter wants or expects






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






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






30. 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






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






32. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






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






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






35. Tests whether the means on one outcome or dependent variable are significantly different across groups - height or level of anxiety from anxiety scale






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. The approach to construct assessment instruments - involves selection of items that can discriminate between various groups; responses determine if he is like a particular group or not; e.g. Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory






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






42. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable






43. Measure how well you know a subject - measure past learning






44. Measure innate ability to learn (debatable) - to predict later performance






45. Experimenter bias; researchers see what they want to see; minimized in double-blind






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






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






48. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






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






50. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach







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