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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. 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
Reactance
variance (calculation)
placebo effect
Pearson r correlation coefficient
2. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field
variance and standard deviation
Vocational tests
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
3. 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
statistics
Illusory correlation
Lie detector tests
normal distribution(+characteristic)
4. Process in testing concurrent validity
Cross validation
Type I and II errors
Internal validity
Graphs (types)
5. 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
ordinal variables
mode
Item analysis (reliability)
Factorial analysis of variance
6. Order - variables need to be arranged by order (not necessarily equally spaced) - ex: maranthon finishers
placebo effect
Pearson r correlation coefficient
ordinal variables
cohort effect
7. Give descriptive names - No order or relationship among the variables other than to separate them into groups - ex: male-female
Scientific approach
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
nominal variables
8. Not intelligence tests; measure sensory and motor development of infants to identify mental retardation; poor predictors of later intelligence
frequency polygon
histogram
Walter Mischel
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
9. Has plotted points connected by lines - used to plot variables that are continuous (categories without clear boundaries)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Internal validity
Objective tests (+types)
frequency polygon
10. Step beyond correlations; allows not only identification of relationship between 2 variables - also make predictions
Word Association Test
Lie detector tests
Statistical regression
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
11. Fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not
frequency polygon
Rorschach Inkblot Test
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
stratified sampling
12. Capable of showing order and pacing because equal spaces lie between the values - do not include real zero - ex: temperature
Alpha levels
Spearman r correlation coefficient
interval variables
social desirability
13. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety
ratio variables
Face validity
Lie detector tests
Statistical regression
14. Developed concept of IQ and first intelligence test (Binet Scale)
Split-half reliability
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Frequency distributions (+variables)
Alfred Binet
15. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests
random sampling
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Reliability (+types)
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
16. Number of SD a score is from the mean - For normal distribution - (-3 to +3)
Alpha levels
Z-scores
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
17. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face
Item analysis (reliability)
External validity (+types)
Q-sort/measure
cohort-sequential design
18. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point
Pearson r correlation coefficient
standard error of mean
between subject
placebo effect
19. 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
Face validity
placebo effect
Objective tests (+types)
social desirability
20. Calculates how off the mean might be in either direction
Crystallized intelligence
standard error of mean
cohort-sequential design
variance (calculation)
21. Frequency polygon (continuous variables) - histogram/ bar graph (discrete)
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
Graphs (types)
variance and standard deviation
22. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random
cross-sectional design
placebo effect
Content validity
Selective attrition
23. How a researcher attempts to examine a hypothesis - different questions call for different approaches - some approaches are more scientific than others
research design
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
ordinal variables
Meta-analysis
24. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
median
variance (calculation)
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Factorial analysis of variance
25. 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
statistics
Q-sort/measure
mode
Lewis Terman
26. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world
Experimental design
Test-retest reliability
placebo
generalizability
27. When people agree with opposing statements; giving tacit agreement
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Acquiescence
double-blind experiment
percentiles
28. If it is significant - same finding can be generalized to the population - use test of significant to reject null hypothesis
Cross validation
statistically significant
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Nonequivalent control group
29. Tests whether the means on one outcome or dependent variable are significantly different across groups - height or level of anxiety from anxiety scale
Word Association Test
frequency polygon
Walter Mischel
One-way ANOVA
30. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed
Experimenter bias
Experimental design
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
standard deviation (calculation)
31. 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
Statistical regression
Lie detector tests
bar graph
Descriptive statistics (+types)
32. Whether scores on a new measure correlate with other measures known to test the same construct; cross validation process
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Concurrent validity
histogram
Scientific approach
33. Every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample
Validity (+types)
random sampling
Objective tests (+types)
mode
34. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age
Word Association Test
ratio variables
Criterion-referenced tests
Learn the shape of different distributions
35. The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable
placebo
T-score
predictive value
ANOVA/analysis of variance
36. 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
variance (calculation)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
percentiles
37. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured
Julian Rotter
confounding variable
Construct validity
Reactance
38. 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
Lie detector tests
Projective tests (+types)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
range
39. Revised Binet'S version - used with children - organized by age level - Best known predictor of future academic achievement
Reactance
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Word Association Test
variance (calculation)
40. 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
Discrete data
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
median
Draw-A-Person Test
41. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
between subject
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
42. Like a histogram except that the vertical bars do not touch - various columns are separated by space
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
bar graph
Concurrent validity
Face validity
43. Measure mastery in a particular area (e.g. final exam)
Criterion-referenced tests
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Anne Anastasi
Cross validation
44. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Z-scores
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Validity (+types)
45. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution
Null hypothesis
F-scale or F-ratio
normal distribution(+characteristic)
standard deviation (calculation)
46. 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 -
nominal variables
Chi-square test
variance and standard deviation
Rorschach Inkblot Test
47. Might show how often different variables appear; nominal - ordinal - interval - ratio (real zero)
Reliability (+types)
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
variance and standard deviation
Frequency distributions (+variables)
48. Revised Binet scale to Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale; also studied gifted children - those with higher IQs better adjusted
social desirability
Statistical regression
Discrete data
Lewis Terman
49. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Intelligence
independent variable
cohort-sequential design
50. 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
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Standard normal distributions
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Meta-analysis
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