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BERINGUEL Flashcards

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In order to determine the split-half reliability of a test with a limited number of items, the best statistical tool to use is

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Spearman brown formula

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In order to determine the reliability of polytomous or unequal variables, the best statistical tool to use is

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Cronbach’s Coefficient alpha

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In order to determine the reliability of dichotomous variables, the best statistical tool to use is

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Kuder-Richardson 20

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The NEO-PI-R is an example of what kind of test

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Structured Personality Test

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Your test taker forgot to eat breakfast at home. While answering the test, his stomach began to grumble. What kind of threat to internal validity is present in this situation?

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History

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The following elements must be present before an experiment can be called as a true experiment

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Must have both Random assignment and Control group

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When the distribution of scores include outliers, it is better not to use

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Mean

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He is the first to utilize survey as a measure of data collection

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Sir Francis Galton

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He developed the House Tree Person Test

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John Buck

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He developed the Draw-a-Person Test

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Florence Goodenough

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He created the first ever intelligence test for school children

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Alfred Binet (Binet-Simon Scale)

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He edited the Binet-Simon Scale and turned it into the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test

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Lewis Turman

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An intelligence test that can also be used for the evaluation of learning disabilities

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Woodcock-Johnson III

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An intelligence test for infants

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Bayley Scale

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15
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An intelligence test for young children

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Kaufman Assessment Battery

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The first test administered to a newborn baby (Administered in the first minute from birth, then again after 5 minutes, then again for 10 minutes when the second test is not yet okay)

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Apgar Test

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In order to determine the concurrent validity of a test, the statistical tool to be employed is

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Pearson r

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18
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The split-half reliability is used to determine

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If all items in the test measures the same dimension

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The 16-PF is a personality test that could also determine unusual responses like:

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  • Impression Management (Social Desirability)
  • Infrequency (Random responses, answering middle)
  • Acquiescence (Tendency to agree to most)
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When our code of ethics conflicts with the law, what is the best step to do?

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Resolve the conflict while being committed to the code of ethics

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For individuals who are legally incapable of providing consent, we must

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Nevertheless explain appropriately to the client, obtain informed assent from them, obtain appropriate informed consent from their legal guardian

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In creating research, this is the most ideal type of statement

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Falsifiable Statement

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A statement that is always true

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Analytical Statement

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A statement that is always false

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Contradictory Statement

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The meaning of a variable in an experiment as provided by a dictionary

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Conceptual definition

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26
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Factors not included in your research but exists and affects the study

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Extraneous Variable

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One of the primary objectives in developing this scale was to provide an intelligence test suitable for adults, as previously available tests were all designed for school children

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Weschler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale

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States that measurement error is always random, and advocates standardization of tests

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Classical Test Score Theory

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This is a specific form of Hawthorne effect, in which the control group competes with the experimental group

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John Henry Effect (Under reactivity)

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30
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The concept behind “the more items, the merrier”

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Domain Sampling Model

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31
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Subjects serve more than one condition of the independent variable

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Within-subjects design

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32
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In reliability, what range estimate is acceptable in the clinical setting

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.95 (Because it determines the fate of an individual)

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33
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In reliability, what range estimate is acceptable in school or office settings

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.70

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34
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To increase the reliability of a 35-item test

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Add more items

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35
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It is necessary to obtain informed consent from participants before recording their voices or images, except when

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Consent for the use is obtained during debriefing

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Alice was given an intelligence test on Monday and she obtained a score of 100. She took the same test on Wednesday, and she obtained a score of 130. Based on this, the intelligence test is therefore

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Not reliable and not valid

“A test can be reliable but not valid, but a test can never be valid unless reliable.”

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37
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Obtained when the test measures what it purports to measure

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Construct Validity

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38
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Tests that score ambiguous responses

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Sack’s Sentence Completion Test
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Purpose in Life Test

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39
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If there is evidence that the association between two variables is not significantly different from 0, then we

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Reject the alternative hypothesis

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40
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At the very least, what should be the item difficulty of a multiple-choice item with four choices for it to be reasonable

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.30 (Higher than the probability you will get it right even by chance)

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41
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This was developed when the classical test theory was deemed inadequate in identifying the true ability of the test takers

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Item Response Theory

42
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Psychological Test that used IRT and a non-verbal intelligence test

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Raven’s Proggresive Matrices

43
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Test-retest reliability only applies to

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Stable traits

44
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Establishing this psychometric property requires good logical skills and intuition

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Content Validity

45
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Another name for SRA Verbal Form

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Thurstone Primary Mental Abilities Test

46
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He recognized the need for the rapid classification of recruits with respect to general intellectual level during World War I

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Robert Yerkes

47
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In test-retest, carryover effects do not harm the reliability when

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The changes in score happened on all of the test takers

48
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This is established by identifying the total test scores of those who have answered correctly in a particular item of the test

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Discriminability Analysis

49
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The Mean and SD of IQ

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Mean= 100; SD= 15

50
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Personality test that can distinguish abnormal from normal behaviors

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

51
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A research style with no direction

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Two-tailed test

52
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A research style with direction

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One-tailed test

53
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Tukey’s HSD and Fisher’s LSD are post-hoc test of what statistical treatment?

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ANOVA

54
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Projective instruments are more susceptible to faking. True or False?

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False

55
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Changes that causes performance to improve as the experiment goes on

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Practice effect

56
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Changes that causes performance to decline as the experiment goes on

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Fatigue effect

57
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Case studies have high degree of manipulation of antecedent conditions. True or False?

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False

58
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Developed the first intelligence test to include nonverbal scale as a measure of human intelligence

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David Weschler

59
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Raymond B. Cattell:

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Factor Analysis, Crystallized Intelligence-Fluid Intelligence, Culture-Fair Intelligence Test, 16-PF

60
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James McKeen Cattel

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Coined the term “mental test”

61
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When a test measures what it is supposed to measure it is…

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Both reliable and valid

62
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In 16-PF, a score of 5% and below in Impression Management indicates the client is Faking…

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Bad

63
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The tendency of test takers to score on the low end of the scale

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Strictness error

64
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The tendency of test takers to score on the high end of the scale

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Leniency error

65
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The tendency of test takers to score average on the scale

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Central Tendency Error

66
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Leniency Error, Strictness Error, and Central Tendency Error are under the umbrella term

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Distribution Error

67
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8 Threats to Internal Validity

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  1. History
  2. Maturation
  3. Testing
  4. Instrumentation
  5. Statistical Regression
  6. Selection
  7. Subject Mortality
  8. Selection Interaction
68
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The best way to control demand characteristics

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Single-blind experiments (Only subjects don’t know which group they are in)

69
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The best way to avoid experimenter bias

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Double-blind experiments (Both subjects don’t know group assignments)

70
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Often preferred test of Adlerian psychologists, this involves analyzing memories especially those of early life, as they acknowledge the central role that memories can play in the evolution of personality

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Autobiographical Memories

71
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Lorna is developing a test about altruism. According to a theory she read, altruism is not related to aggression. She then proceeded to correlate her newly-established test to another test that measures aggression. What type of validity could be established?

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Divergent Validity

72
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Cora wants to develop a test that would determine if recently fired employees would lose purpose in life after a year. She developed her Living with a Purpose scale and administered it to her participants. After a year, she administered the Purpose in Life test, and correlated its scores to the test she created a year before. Cora is trying to determine what psychometric property?

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Predictive Validity

73
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A test is more reliable when it is…

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Unidimensional

74
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The phenomenon called the Flynn effect has been observed since the beginning of the 1930s. What is affected by this phenomenon?

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Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence

75
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Occurs when a test is too hard/ too easy

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Floor effect/ Ceiling effect

76
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A specific test that measures autobiographical memories

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Early Memories Procedure

77
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A type of test that measure children’s specific problems (play therapy)

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Scenotest

78
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1st type of projective test

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Catharsis and Free Association Technique

79
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The results of this test, unlike most other personality inventories, are intended primarily for use by the test taker and presented in a non-judgmental fashion. Also this test should never be used in selection and diagnosis

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

80
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The NEO-PI-R measures the following dimensions

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Costa & McCrae’s Big Five

81
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The MBTI measures the following dimensions

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Carl Jung’s Typology

82
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The TAT measures the following dimensions

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Murray’s Psychogenic Needs

83
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Informed consent is given to _____, while Informed assent is given to ______

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Adults, Minors

84
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The study of the measurement of the human skull and its relation to personality (phrenology) is proposed by

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Franz Joseph Gall

85
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This is the method used in identifying the item discriminability when you correlate the performance on the item and the performance on the whole test.

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Point-biserial correlation

86
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Assumes that repeated application of the same test can produce different scores X = T + E

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Classical Test Score Theory

87
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The development of this test is based on Murray’s Psychogenic Needs

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Edward’s Personal Preference Schedule

88
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Subjects serve more than one condition of the IV

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Within-subject design

89
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One factor is within subject, the other is between subject

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Mixed design

90
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In a particular university, in order to pass their entrance test a student must score at least 70 and above before admission. This is a type of ____-referenced test.

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Criterion-referenced test

91
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This is the prototype of personality questionnaire or self-report inventory, the development was not completed early enough to permit its occupational use before WWI ended and this is used as a screening device for recruits who want to enter the military service

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Personal Data Sheet

92
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Madrid wanted to identify who among her students read all the articles, and who among them only read the summary through the test she would be giving. In order to do so, the item difficulty must range between

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.30-.70

93
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Wilhelm Wund set up a laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in the year

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1879

94
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A test given to a homogeneous group in order to establish reliability will have what type of implications?

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If the test would reveal to be reliable, it would mean that the test is only reliable in that particular characteristic

95
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indicates that the test does not represent a construct other than the one for which it was devised

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Discriminant Validity

96
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In order to minimize the occurrence of events that could alter the results, it is best to

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Create a control group

97
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This is the the threat present if there is no random assignment

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Selection

98
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SD of Sten

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2

99
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The best measure of central tendency to use in strongly skewed distribution would be

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Median

100
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Kelvin is an example of what level of measurment

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Ratio

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