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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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






2. Normal curve - negatively skewed distribution - positively sknewed distribution - bimodal distribution - platykuric distribution






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






4. 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






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






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






7. Measure innate ability to learn (debatable) - to predict later performance






8. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist






9. 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%






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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

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






23. I when incorrectly reject null - thought significant but chance; II when incorrectly accept null - thought chance but significant






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. How stable measure is; test-retest - split-half






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






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






35. The age level of a person'S functioning according to the IQ test






36. 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






37. Neither purely descriptive nor purely inferential - can only show relationship - not causality - positive and negative correlation






38. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






39. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






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






41. 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






42. Mean (standard error of mean) - median mode; normal and platykuric: equal; positively skewed: mode - med - mean; negatively skewed: mean - med - mode; bimodal: equal mean and med - 2 modes






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






44. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






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






46. Most commonly used for adults 16+ - organized by subtests with subscales and identify problem areas; current is WAIS-IV






47. Whether test items look like they measure the construct






48. Process in testing concurrent validity






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






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