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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






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






3. There is a general factor in intelligence 'g'






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






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






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






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






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






9. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed






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%






11. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality






12. Inactive substance or condition disguised as a treatment substance or condition - used to form control group






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






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






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






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






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 -






18. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data






19. Draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them






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






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






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






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






24. Internal-External Locus of Control Scale






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






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






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






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






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






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






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%






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






34. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups






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






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






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






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






39. For children 6-16






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






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






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






43. How the score are spread out overall






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






45. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value






46. Process in testing concurrent validity






47. Takes place in controlled setting must be able to control for: independent variable - dependent variable - and confounding variable






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






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






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