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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology

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1. Birth order vs. intelligence; the older - the more intelligent; the more children - the less intelligent; the greater spacing - the more intelligent






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






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






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






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






6. Measure how well you know a subject - measure past learning






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach






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






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






20. Knowing a fact






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






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






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. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured






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






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






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






28. 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






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

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






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






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






34. Tell you the average extent to which scores were different from the mean - if average standard deviation is large - then scores were highly dispersed






35. 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






36. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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