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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






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






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






4. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Capable of showing order and pacing because equal spaces lie between the values - do not include real zero - ex: temperature






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






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






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






16. Number of SD a score is from the mean - For normal distribution - (-3 to +3)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Tests whether the means on one outcome or dependent variable are significantly different across groups - height or level of anxiety from anxiety scale






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 -






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






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






49. Not IQ - It is unlikely IQ captures all facets of it






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







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