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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. 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






3. Studying the same objects at different points in the lifespan and provides better - more valid results than most other methods - costly - time commitment






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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

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






12. 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 -






13. When subjects act in ways they think experimenter wants or expects






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






18. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable






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






20. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face






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






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






23. 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






24. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






25. 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






26. Knowing a fact






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






28. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face






29. For children 6-16






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






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






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






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






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






35. Whether scores on a new measure correlate with other measures known to test the same construct; cross validation process






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






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






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






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






40. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






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






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






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






44. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






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






46. Fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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