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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. Mathematically combines and summarizes overall effects or findings for a topic; best known for consolidating effectiveness of psychotherapy - can calculate overall effect size or conclusion drawn from a collection of studies; needed when conflicting
nominal variables
placebo effect
Meta-analysis
between subject
2. Measure of fascism or authoritarian personality
ratio variables
F-scale or F-ratio
mode
ordinal variables
3. How the score are spread out overall
T-score
Variability
Lie detector tests
Objective tests (+types)
4. 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
Chi-square test
Field study
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
social desirability
5. Has plotted points connected by lines - used to plot variables that are continuous (categories without clear boundaries)
standard deviation (calculation)
variance and standard deviation
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
frequency polygon
6. 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
Selective attrition
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Variability
7. Whether content covers a good sample of construct being measured
double-blind experiment
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
variance and standard deviation
Content validity
8. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist
One-way ANOVA
within subject
Null hypothesis
mode
9. Draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them
Experimenter bias
Acquiescence
Draw-A-Person Test
random sampling
10. How well a test measures a construct; multitrait-multimethod technique determines validity; internal - external: concurrent - construct - content - face
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Type I and II errors
Validity (+types)
11. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value
median
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Descriptive statistics (+types)
Fluid intelligence
12. Revised Binet'S version - used with children - organized by age level - Best known predictor of future academic achievement
histogram
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Scientific approach
Inferential statistics
13. Measured by the same individual taking the same test more than once
Test-retest reliability
variance (calculation)
Field study
Null hypothesis
14. Process in testing concurrent validity
between subject
Cross validation
Learn the shape of different distributions
Fluid intelligence
15. Similar to T-test - but can measure more than 2 groups
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
variance and standard deviation
Reliability (+types)
ANOVA/analysis of variance
16. Aims to match demographic characteristics to population (i.e. 50% female - etc)
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
T-score
stratified sampling
17. 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
External validity (+types)
within subject
variance (calculation)
T-test
18. Mean is 0 - and SD=1 - This with Z-score allow you to compare one person'S score on two different distributions
ratio variables
Statistical regression
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
Standard normal distributions
19. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis
Split-half reliability
Continuous data
One-way ANOVA
placebo effect
20. Inactive substance or condition disguised as a treatment substance or condition - used to form control group
Anne Anastasi
placebo
Percentages under normal distribution based on SDs (from mean to end)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
21. Created multitrait-multimethod technique to determine validity of tests
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
Concurrent validity
Validity (+types)
range
22. For ranks; determining the line that describes a linear relationship
Content validity
Type I and II errors
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
23. Tests the same person at multiple time points and looks at changes within that person
within subject
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Criterion-referenced tests
Walter Mischel
24. When relationship inferred when there is none - ex: many people think there is a relationship between physical and personality characteristics - when evidence show there is none
standard error of mean
Illusory correlation
Curvilinear relationship
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
25. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Domain-referenced tests
Longitudinal design
26. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety
ANOVA/analysis of variance
Lie detector tests
Statistical regression
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
27. Does not control - but examines how independent variable affects it
Continuous data
dependent variable
Draw-A-Person Test
research design
28. Intelligence in relation to performance; pioneered development of psychometrics - 'no intelligence is culture-free'
Population & related
mode
placebo
Anne Anastasi
29. Similar to word association - finish incomplete sentences
quasi-experimental design
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Fluid intelligence
Null hypothesis
30. Step beyond correlations; allows not only identification of relationship between 2 variables - also make predictions
Statistical regression
Alfred Binet
Population & related
F-scale or F-ratio
31. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field
cross-sectional design
Vocational tests
between subject
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
32. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed
Reactance
Hawthorne effect
statistics
Experimenter bias
33. Whether test really taps abstract concept being measured
Construct validity
Inferential statistics
bar graph
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
34. Consist of vertical bars in which the sides of the vertical bars touch - useful for discrete variables that have clear boundaries - interval variables in which there is some order
Graphs (types)
histogram
standard deviation (calculation)
frequency polygon
35. Transformation of a z-score - mean is 50 and the SD is 10 - T=10(Z)+50
T-score
placebo
Julian Rotter
median
36. Like a histogram except that the vertical bars do not touch - various columns are separated by space
median
Acquiescence
Lewis Terman
bar graph
37. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
Standard normal distributions
generalizability
Selective attrition
38. Measure how well you know a subject - measure past learning
ANOVA/analysis of variance
Achievement tests
random sampling
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
39. Includes: testable hypothesis - reproducible experiment - operationalized definition (observable and measurable)
Scientific approach
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
Alpha levels
40. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data
Internal validity
Cross validation
One-way ANOVA
statistics
41. Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach; to determine of subject is like a particular group or not
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Aptitude tests
Domain-referenced tests
42. Rosenthal effect; researchers see what they want to see; minimized in double-blind
Construct validity
Experimenter bias
Statistical regression
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
43. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach
generalizability
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
cohort-sequential design
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
44. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated
Test-retest reliability
Content validity
cohort effect
Nonequivalent control group
45. Personality measure for 'normal' / less clinical groups than MMPI - by Harrison Gough
Julian Rotter
Longitudinal design
Standard normal distributions
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
46. Neither purely descriptive nor purely inferential - can only show relationship - not causality - positive and negative correlation
Factorial analysis of variance
Correlational relationships
Illusory correlation
Graphs (types)
47. Have order - equal intervals and a real zero ex: age
Standard normal distributions
ratio variables
Variability
percentiles
48. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind
Word Association Test
mental age
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
range
49. Critical of personality trait-theory and personality tests; felt situations (not traits) decide actions
Reactance
Field study
Walter Mischel
Face validity
50. Not intelligence tests; measure sensory and motor development of infants to identify mental retardation; poor predictors of later intelligence
Longitudinal design
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Alfred Binet