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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. 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






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






4. The approach to construct assessment instruments - involves selection of items that can discriminate between various groups; responses determine if he is like a particular group or not; e.g. Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory






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






6. Knowing how to do something






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






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






9. Analyses how a large group responded to each item on the measure; weeds out problematic questions with low discriminatory value; increases internal consistency






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






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






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






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






14. Frequency polygon (continuous variables) - histogram/ bar graph (discrete)






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






16. How the score are spread out overall






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Tests the effects of two independent variables or treatment conditions at once






30. Not intelligence tests; measure sensory and motor development of infants to identify mental retardation; poor predictors of later intelligence






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






32. 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%






33. For children 6-16






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






35. Intelligence in relation to performance; pioneered development of psychometrics - 'no intelligence is culture-free'






36. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests






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






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






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

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40. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






41. 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 -






42. 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






43. 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






44. Personality test from Jung'S theory; 93 questions 2 answers each; 4-letter personality type - each letter 1 of 2 possible opposing characteristics: Introverted vs. Extraverted - Sensing vs. Intuition - Feeling vs. Thinking - and - Judgment vs. Percep






45. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups






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






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






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






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






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







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