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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. Tests the effects of two independent variables or treatment conditions at once
Two-way ANOVA
Word Association Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
stratified sampling
2. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
cohort effect
variance and standard deviation
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
3. There is a general factor in intelligence 'g'
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Charles Spearmen
Word Association Test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
4. How a researcher attempts to examine a hypothesis - different questions call for different approaches - some approaches are more scientific than others
variance and standard deviation
Aptitude tests
Correlational relationships
research design
5. 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
Content validity
within subject
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Q-sort/measure
6. 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
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
variance (calculation)
Inferential statistics
Objective tests (+types)
7. Neither purely descriptive nor purely inferential - can only show relationship - not causality - positive and negative correlation
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Correlational relationships
Aptitude tests
8. 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
quasi-experimental design
Criterion-referenced tests
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
9. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed
confounding variable
Test-retest reliability
T-test
Hawthorne effect
10. 34.13% - 13.59% - 2.02% - 0.26% and - +3 99.74% - +2 97.72% - +1 84.13% - 0 50.00% - -1 15.87% - -2 2.28% - -3 0.26%
double-blind experiment
Null hypothesis
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
Word Association Test
11. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality
variance (calculation)
F-scale or F-ratio
ANOVA/analysis of variance
median
12. Inactive substance or condition disguised as a treatment substance or condition - used to form control group
placebo
Linear regression
Content validity
histogram
13. Different subjects of different ages are compared - faster - easier
T-test
ordinal variables
cross-sectional design
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
14. The degree to which the result from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
generalizability
placebo
Standard normal distributions
15. Aims to match demographic characteristics to population (i.e. 50% female - etc)
stratified sampling
Lewis Terman
Q-sort/measure
Alpha levels
16. 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
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
Meta-analysis
Pearson r correlation coefficient
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
17. 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 -
Chi-square test
Meta-analysis
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
cross-sectional design
18. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data
statistics
Content validity
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
standard error of mean
19. Draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them
Draw-A-Person Test
Hawthorne effect
Z-scores
Nonequivalent control group
20. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed
T-test
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
nominal variables
standard deviation (calculation)
21. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face
Validity (+types)
Walter Mischel
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Discrete data
22. Revised Binet scale to Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale; also studied gifted children - those with higher IQs better adjusted
Two-way ANOVA
Lewis Terman
Q-sort/measure
Draw-A-Person Test
23. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
standard error of mean
Test-retest reliability
Selective attrition
24. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Julian Rotter
Variability
Criterion-referenced tests
Chi-square test
25. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point
percentiles
between subject
mental age
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
26. 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
Projective tests (+types)
Reactance
Construct validity
Type I and II errors
27. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age
Validity (+types)
Type I and II errors
ratio variables
Q-sort/measure
28. 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
Mean IQ
Factorial analysis of variance
Linear regression
Type I and II errors
29. Birth order vs. intelligence; the older - the more intelligent; the more children - the less intelligent; the greater spacing - the more intelligent
Robert Zajonc
Domain-referenced tests
Lewis Terman
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
30. (Mental age/chronological age)/100 - Highest age = 16
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31. Capable of showing order and pacing because equal spaces lie between the values - do not include real zero - ex: temperature
interval variables
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
placebo
Acquiescence
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%
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Alpha levels
quasi-experimental design
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
33. 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
social desirability
Achievement tests
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
Face validity
34. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups
Draw-A-Person Test
ANOVA/analysis of variance
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
35. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition
mental age
placebo effect
predictive value
random sampling
36. Might show how often different variables appear; nominal - ordinal - interval - ratio (real zero)
Word Association Test
Objective tests (+types)
Frequency distributions (+variables)
ratio variables
37. Naturalistic setting - less control over environment than in lab; generates more hypotheses than able to prove
statistically significant
Projective tests (+types)
Field study
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
38. Transformation of a z-score - mean is 50 and the SD is 10 - T=10(Z)+50
Discrete data
Longitudinal design
T-score
Concurrent validity
39. For children 6-16
Type I and II errors
Field study
Reactance
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
40. Frequency polygon (continuous variables) - histogram/ bar graph (discrete)
Graphs (types)
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
social desirability
Fluid intelligence
41. Order - variables need to be arranged by order (not necessarily equally spaced) - ex: maranthon finishers
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
ordinal variables
Lie detector tests
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
42. 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
ordinal variables
Aptitude tests
Linear regression
Anne Anastasi
43. How the score are spread out overall
Variability
range
Z-scores
statistically significant
44. Attempts to eliminate/minimize these - variables in the environment that might also effect the dependent variable and blue the effect of independent variable on the dependent variable
confounding variable
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
generalizability
Crystallized intelligence
45. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value
frequency polygon
Linear regression
median
between subject
46. Process in testing concurrent validity
mode
Nonequivalent control group
social desirability
Cross validation
47. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable
normal distribution(+characteristic)
Mean IQ
Two-way ANOVA
Experimental design
48. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field
Null hypothesis
Vocational tests
Projective tests (+types)
variance and standard deviation
49. Personality measure for 'normal' / less clinical groups than MMPI - by Harrison Gough
Face validity
Draw-A-Person Test
generalizability
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
50. 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
ratio variables
variance and standard deviation
dependent variable
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)