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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. 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






2. Process in testing concurrent validity






3. 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






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






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






6. Measure mastery in a particular area (e.g. final exam)






7. 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%






8. Knowing a fact






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






10. The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable






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






12. 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






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






14. Like a histogram except that the vertical bars do not touch - various columns are separated by space






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. compares means of 2 different groups to see if the two groups are truly different - analyze differences between means on continuous data - particularly useful with small n - cannot test for difference between more than 2 groups






21. Give descriptive names - No order or relationship among the variables other than to separate them into groups - ex: male-female






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






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






24. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated






25. 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






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






27. Might show how often different variables appear; nominal - ordinal - interval - ratio (real zero)






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






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






30. 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






31. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field






36. Measured by the same individual taking the same test more than once






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






38. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






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






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






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






42. Used most commonly on standardized test






43. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point






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






45. 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






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






47. How stable measure is; test-retest - split-half






48. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed






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






50. 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