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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. Whether scores on a new measure correlate with other measures known to test the same construct; cross validation process
Concurrent validity
quasi-experimental design
variance and standard deviation
Lewis Terman
2. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Validity (+types)
Descriptive statistics (+types)
standard error of mean
3. Used most commonly on standardized test
percentiles
predictive value
Scientific approach
Graphs (types)
4. Give descriptive names - No order or relationship among the variables other than to separate them into groups - ex: male-female
nominal variables
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
confounding variable
frequency polygon
5. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world
generalizability
confounding variable
standard error of mean
Population & related
6. 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
Objective tests (+types)
Cross validation
Experimental design
interval variables
7. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
cohort-sequential design
Construct validity
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
8. Most commonly used for adults 16+ - organized by subtests with subscales and identify problem areas; current is WAIS-IV
Charles Spearmen
Rosenthal effect
mode
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
9. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Field study
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
percentiles
10. Tests whether at least 2 groups co-vary - can adjust for preexisting differences between groups
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Nonequivalent control group
interval variables
Meta-analysis
11. Overall range or spread - most basic measure of variability - subtracts the lowest value from the highest value in a data set
quasi-experimental design
range
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Meta-analysis
12. The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable
Charles Spearmen
predictive value
ANOVA/analysis of variance
histogram
13. Attempt to measure less-defined properties (e.g. intelligence) - check for reliability and validity
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
independent variable
F-scale or F-ratio
Domain-referenced tests
14. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Validity (+types)
Domain-referenced tests
15. Frequency polygon (continuous variables) - histogram/ bar graph (discrete)
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Graphs (types)
16. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
Inferential statistics
Intelligence
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
17. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed
Lewis Terman
Robert Zajonc
Test-retest reliability
standard deviation (calculation)
18. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random
Descriptive statistics (+types)
F-scale or F-ratio
stratified sampling
Selective attrition
19. Knowing a fact
Crystallized intelligence
variance (calculation)
Criterion-referenced tests
Draw-A-Person Test
20. 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
stratified sampling
Factorial analysis of variance
double-blind experiment
confounding variable
21. 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
statistically significant
T-test
Fluid intelligence
normal distribution(+characteristic)
22. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed
Correlational relationships
Charles Spearmen
Hawthorne effect
Alpha levels
23. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value
median
research design
cross-sectional design
Word Association Test
24. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face
External validity (+types)
Word Association Test
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Split-half reliability
25. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
between subject
IQ Binet'S equation
ANOVA/analysis of variance
26. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated
Nonequivalent control group
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
mental age
27. The age level of a person'S functioning according to the IQ test
Criterion-referenced tests
mental age
Discrete data
Illusory correlation
28. How the score are spread out overall
Frequency distributions (+variables)
cohort effect
Variability
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
29. 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
Face validity
Curvilinear relationship
Item analysis (reliability)
Pearson r correlation coefficient
30. 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
between subject
Robert Zajonc
Factorial analysis of variance
Achievement tests
31. Not to diagnose depression but assess severity of depressive symptoms; used by researcher or clinician to track course of depressive symptoms
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Internal validity
Discrete data
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
32. Developed concept of IQ and first intelligence test (Binet Scale)
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Alfred Binet
Meta-analysis
Fluid intelligence
33. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it
dependent variable
Correlational relationships
Intelligence
Standard normal distributions
34. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Z-scores
Learn the shape of different distributions
between subject
35. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period
standard error of mean
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Construct validity
cohort effect
36. When subjects do and say what they think puts them in a favorable light -ex: reporting they are not racist even if they really are
Discrete data
Field study
social desirability
One-way ANOVA
37. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
placebo
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
mode
38. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Null hypothesis
Scientific approach
Experimental design
39. Calculates how off the mean might be in either direction
standard error of mean
Hawthorne effect
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Domain-referenced tests
40. Not intelligence tests; measure sensory and motor development of infants to identify mental retardation; poor predictors of later intelligence
Lewis Terman
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
cohort effect
Draw-A-Person Test
41. Does not control - but examines how independent variable affects it
dependent variable
Anne Anastasi
Acquiescence
Standard normal distributions
42. There is a general factor in intelligence 'g'
Experimental design
Illusory correlation
Charles Spearmen
Graphs (types)
43. Personality measure for 'normal' / less clinical groups than MMPI - by Harrison Gough
Reliability (+types)
Spearman r correlation coefficient
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
One-way ANOVA
44. Capable of showing order and pacing because equal spaces lie between the values - do not include real zero - ex: temperature
Inferential statistics
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
histogram
interval variables
45. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind
Word Association Test
percentiles
ordinal variables
Construct validity
46. Cartoons in which one person is frustrating another; asked to describe how the frustrated person responds
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Vocational tests
double-blind experiment
47. For ranks; determining the line that describes a linear relationship
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Content validity
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
cohort effect
48. 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
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Discrete data
percentiles
Robert Zajonc
49. For children 4-6
Criterion-referenced tests
Standard normal distributions
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
Meta-analysis
50. Anything that is measured such as height or depression score on a depression scale
Crystallized intelligence
Q-sort/measure
Continuous data
Walter Mischel