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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

Subjects : gre, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






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






4. Measured by the same individual taking the same test more than once






5. Attempt to measure less-defined properties (e.g. intelligence) - check for reliability and validity






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






7. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






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






9. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






10. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated






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






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






13. Used most commonly on standardized test






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. How the score are spread out overall






20. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable






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






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






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






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






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






26. Mean is 0 - and SD=1 - This with Z-score allow you to compare one person'S score on two different distributions






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






28. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind






29. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






30. Aims to match demographic characteristics to population (i.e. 50% female - etc)






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






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






33. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






34. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






35. Population --> sample/subgroup --> representative and unbiased --> achieved through random sampling --> if it'S not feasible - use convenience sampling instead or stratified sampling






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






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






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






39. Mean of Americans is standardized to 100 - with SD 15 or 16 depending on test; correlates most with IQ of biological parents and socioeconomic status






40. 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%






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






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






43. For ranks; determining the line that describes a linear relationship






44. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Naturalistic setting - less control over environment than in lab; generates more hypotheses than able to prove