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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. Whether content covers a good sample of construct being measured






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






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






5. How a researcher attempts to examine a hypothesis - different questions call for different approaches - some approaches are more scientific than others






6. Different subjects of different ages are compared - faster - easier






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






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






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






10. Data that has been counted rather than measured - usually limited to whole or positive values - ex: group size - number of hospital visit - number of symptoms






11. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






12. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






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






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






15. 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






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






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






19. Numerically calculating and expressing correlation - r range -1 to +1 - 0 = no relationship






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






21. How the score are spread out overall






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






23. Birth order vs. intelligence; the older - the more intelligent; the more children - the less intelligent; the greater spacing - the more intelligent






24. Mean of Americans is standardized to 100 - with SD 15 or 16 depending on test; correlates most with IQ of biological parents and socioeconomic status






25. 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






26. For children 4-6






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. For ranks; determining the line that describes a linear relationship






33. For children 6-16






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






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






36. Notable for cross-cultural application and simple directions - to make the best picture of a man - scored based on detail and accuracy - not artistic talent






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






38. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






39. figure out how much each score differs (deviates) from the mean by subtracting the mean from each score - square each of these deviation values (to get rid of negative value) - add all these squared deviations to get the sum of square - divide sum by






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






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






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






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






44. 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%






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






46. 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






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






48. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






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