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GRE Psychology: Measurement And Methodology
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1. The process of representing or analyzing numerical data
statistics
dependent variable
mental age
Robert Zajonc
2. Draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them
Population & related
Learn the shape of different distributions
Draw-A-Person Test
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
3. Different subjects of different ages are compared - faster - easier
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Inferential statistics
cross-sectional design
Validity (+types)
4. Most commonly used for adults 16+ - organized by subtests with subscales and identify problem areas; current is WAIS-IV
T-score
confounding variable
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
5. The age level of a person'S functioning according to the IQ test
Objective tests (+types)
mental age
Frequency distributions (+variables)
dependent variable
6. When subject behave differently just because they thing that they have received the treatment substance or condition
Crystallized intelligence
variance (calculation)
placebo effect
Experimenter bias
7. Compares 2 groups of people at the same time point
between subject
cohort-sequential design
Nonequivalent control group
Frequency distributions (+variables)
8. Tests whether the means on one outcome or dependent variable are significantly different across groups - height or level of anxiety from anxiety scale
Charles Spearmen
Anne Anastasi
Experimental design
One-way ANOVA
9. Subjects alter behaviour because they are being observed
statistics
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Hawthorne effect
Continuous data
10. How much variation there is among n number of scores in a distribution
variance and standard deviation
One-way ANOVA
Cross validation
variance (calculation)
11. Critical of personality trait-theory and personality tests; felt situations (not traits) decide actions
generalizability
Walter Mischel
Spearman r correlation coefficient
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
12. Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approach
Hawthorne effect
Domain-referenced tests
predictive value
cohort-sequential design
13. Number of SD a score is from the mean - For normal distribution - (-3 to +3)
cohort-sequential design
Z-scores
Illusory correlation
between subject
14. When subjects that drop out are different than those that remain; no longer random
Learn the shape of different distributions
Statistical regression
Selective attrition
Robert Zajonc
15. For children 4-6
placebo
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
Nonequivalent control group
Test-retest reliability
16. 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
mode
statistics
Chi-square test
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
17. Fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not
cohort effect
Correlational relationships
Split-half reliability
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
18. Describe what is seen in each of 10 inkblots; scoring is complex; validity questionable
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
stratified sampling
ratio variables
Rorschach Inkblot Test
19. Measure mastery in a particular area (e.g. final exam)
Linear regression
Criterion-referenced tests
Selective attrition
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
20. Tests the effects of two independent variables or treatment conditions at once
Reliability (+types)
Reactance
Discrete data
Two-way ANOVA
21. Birth order vs. intelligence; the older - the more intelligent; the more children - the less intelligent; the greater spacing - the more intelligent
Robert Zajonc
Concurrent validity
statistics
between subject
22. 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
Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske
independent variable
Myers-Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
Experimental design
23. Includes: testable hypothesis - reproducible experiment - operationalized definition (observable and measurable)
percentiles
statistically significant
Scientific approach
Linear regression
24. Measure the extent to which test measures what it intends to; concurrent - construct - content - face
Content validity
Rorschach Inkblot Test
External validity (+types)
variance (calculation)
25. Comparing an individual'S performance on 2 halves of the same test to reveal internal consistency; internal consistency can be increased by item analysis
Q-sort/measure
Vocational tests
independent variable
Split-half reliability
26. Whether test items look like they measure the construct
confounding variable
Lewis Terman
Face validity
independent variable
27. Created to determine whether a person feels responsible for things that happen (internal) or no control over events in life (external)
Crystallized intelligence
median
F-scale or F-ratio
Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
28. Measure how well you know a subject - measure past learning
Z-scores
Achievement tests
dependent variable
Acquiescence
29. Bell curve; larger the sample - greater chance of having a normal distribution
Cross validation
Field study
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
normal distribution(+characteristic)
30. Measure innate ability to learn (debatable) - to predict later performance
variance and standard deviation
within subject
Aptitude tests
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
31. 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
mode
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
Mean IQ
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%
Experimenter bias
Rosenthal effect
Demand characteristic
Alpha levels
33. Assess extent interests and strengths match those found by professionals in a particular job field
Split-half reliability
independent variable
Vocational tests
Longitudinal design
34. Not to diagnose depression but assess severity of depressive symptoms; used by researcher or clinician to track course of depressive symptoms
Test-retest reliability
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
bar graph
35. Tests whether at least 2 groups co-vary - can adjust for preexisting differences between groups
Mean IQ
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Reactance
ratio variables
36. Originally used with free association techniques; word called out - subject says next word in mind
Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration (P-F) Study
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Word Association Test
Internal validity
37. Used when equivalent one cannot be isolated
Nonequivalent control group
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Reactance
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
38. 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
cohort-sequential design
social desirability
Reactance
Central Tendency (types and distribution differences)
39. I when incorrectly reject null - thought significant but chance; II when incorrectly accept null - thought chance but significant
Type I and II errors
Test-retest reliability
Internal validity
statistics
40. The most frequently occurring value
quasi-experimental design
Population & related
mode
Split-half reliability
41. Knowing a fact
Internal validity
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
Concurrent validity
Crystallized intelligence
42. The hypothesis that no real differences or pattern exist
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
social desirability
Null hypothesis
Empirical-keying or criterion-keying approach
43. Analyses how a large group responded to each item on the measure; weeds out problematic questions with low discriminatory value; increases internal consistency
Content validity
Nonequivalent control group
Item analysis (reliability)
mode
44. 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
Hawthorne effect
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test
Lie detector tests
frequency polygon
45. When people agree with opposing statements; giving tacit agreement
Acquiescence
Linear regression
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R)
Variability
46. How the score are spread out overall
Variability
Acquiescence
John Horn and Raymond Cattell
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
47. For even number of values in the set - take the average of the two middle value
One-way ANOVA
median
Graphs (types)
Achievement tests
48. Personality measure for 'normal' / less clinical groups than MMPI - by Harrison Gough
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
Nonequivalent control group
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
49. The effect that might result when a group is born and raised in a particular time period
cohort effect
ANOVA/analysis of variance
range
Alpha levels
50. Measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system - stimulated by lying and anxiety
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
ratio variables
Robert Zajonc
Lie detector tests