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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






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






9. The most frequently occurring value






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






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






12. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






13. How the score are spread out overall






14. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value






15. How much variation there is among n number of scores in a distribution






16. Studying the same objects at different points in the lifespan and provides better - more valid results than most other methods - costly - time commitment






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






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






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






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






21. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. (Mental age/chronological age)/100 - Highest age = 16

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30. Compares 2 groups of people like an experiment - but this is used when it is not feasible or ethical to use random assignment ex: smoker vs. cancer






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world






37. 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






38. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






39. 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%






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not






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






49. 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






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