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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. When people agree with opposing statements; giving tacit agreement






2. 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






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






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






5. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. Tests the same person at multiple time points and looks at changes within that person






14. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






15. Mean is 0 - and SD=1 - This with Z-score allow you to compare one person'S score on two different distributions






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






17. 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%






18. 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






19. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated






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






21. Anything that is measured such as height or depression score on a depression scale






22. Calculates how off the mean might be in either direction






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






24. Sorting cards into a normal distribution; each has a different statement on it about personality; to one end is 'least like self' - other is 'most like self' - and middle is neutral; factor analysis to reduce viewpoints into a few factors






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random






30. Measures the extent to which items in a measure 'hang together' and test the same thing






31. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






32. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






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






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






35. 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






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

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37. Might show how often different variables appear; nominal - ordinal - interval - ratio (real zero)






38. 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






39. Every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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%






50. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences