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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. For children 4-6






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






3. 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






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






5. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. Critical of personality trait-theory and personality tests; felt situations (not traits) decide actions






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






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






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






20. A level of <0.05or <0.01 means that chance that seemingly significant errors are due to random variation rather than to true systematic variance is less than 5% or 1%






21. Mathematically combines and summarizes overall effects or findings for a topic; best known for consolidating effectiveness of psychotherapy - can calculate overall effect size or conclusion drawn from a collection of studies; needed when conflicting






22. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






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






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






25. 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






26. 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%






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






28. There is a general factor in intelligence 'g'






29. 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






30. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution






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






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






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






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






35. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






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






37. 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






38. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition






39. 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






40. Used most commonly on standardized test






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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