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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






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






5. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






6. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. Numerically calculating and expressing correlation - r range -1 to +1 - 0 = no relationship






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






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






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






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






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






22. Population --> sample/subgroup --> representative and unbiased --> achieved through random sampling --> if it'S not feasible - use convenience sampling instead or stratified sampling






23. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. Knowing a fact






29. 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%






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






31. 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






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






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






34. For children 4-6






35. The most frequently occurring value






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






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






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






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






40. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






41. 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






42. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world






43. 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






44. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






45. Tests whether at least 2 groups co-vary - can adjust for preexisting differences between groups






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






47. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






48. 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 -






49. 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






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