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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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






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

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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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%






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






16. 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






17. Not simple and linear - looks like a curved line - ex: arousal and perfomance - high A --> low P - Low A --> low P - medium A --> high P






18. 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






19. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. Revised Binet scale to Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale; also studied gifted children - those with higher IQs better adjusted






27. Used most commonly on standardized test






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






36. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






37. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






38. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it






39. 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






40. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety






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






42. 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






43. Used when n-cases in a sample are classified into categories or cells - tell us whether the groups are significantly different in size - look at the pattern or distributions - not difference between mean - ex:intro psych class categorized into race -






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






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






46. 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






47. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable






48. Attempt to measure less-defined properties (e.g. intelligence) - check for reliability and validity






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






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






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