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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

Subjects : gre, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution






2. 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






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






4. Developed concept of IQ and first intelligence test (Binet Scale)






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






10. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. How the score are spread out overall






16. Step beyond correlations; allows not only identification of relationship between 2 variables - also make predictions






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






18. 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






19. Number of SD a score is from the mean - For normal distribution - (-3 to +3)






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






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






22. Does not control - but examines how independent variable affects it






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






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






25. 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






26. When people agree with opposing statements; giving tacit agreement






27. 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






28. 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






29. Intelligence in relation to performance; pioneered development of psychometrics - 'no intelligence is culture-free'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Has plotted points connected by lines - used to plot variables that are continuous (categories without clear boundaries)






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






45. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






47. Analyses how a large group responded to each item on the measure; weeds out problematic questions with low discriminatory value; increases internal consistency






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






49. 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






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