Chapter 2: Personality Assessment, Reliability and Validity

Question 1

validity

Answer 1

how well the measurements captures the trait and not something else

Question 2

construct validity

Answer 2

the test measured what it claimed to measure and correlated with what it should correlate with

Question 3

face validity

Answer 3

the extent to which a measurement method appears to measure the construct of interest

Question 4

content validity

Answer 4

is the test fully representative of what it aims to measure? Does the measure fully cover the construct of interest?

Question 5

criterion validity

Answer 5

the extent to which people’s scores on a measure are correlated with other variables that one would expect them to be correlated with

Question 6

concurrent validity

Answer 6

when the criterion is measured at the same time as the construct

Question 7

predictive validity

Answer 7

when the criterion is measured at some point in the future, after the construct has been measured

Question 8

convergent validity

Answer 8

the test positively correlates with other existing measures of the personality trait

Question 9

discriminant validity

Answer 9

the test does not correlate with measures of other personality traits

Question 10

reliability

Answer 10

how accurate/precise the measurement is in measuring the personality trait

Question 11

test-retest reliability

Answer 11

will i get the same score if i use the same measurement X weeks later?

Question 12

internal consistency reliability

Answer 12

whether items of the same personality trait correlate with each other?

Question 13

split-half correlation

Answer 13

method of assessing internal consistency through splitting the items into two sets and examining the relationship between them

Question 14

inter-rater reliability

Answer 14

whether different assessors taking the same measurements come to the same conclusion

Question 15

generalizability

Answer 15

degree to which the measurements retains its validity in different contexts

Question 16

scaling/standardization

Answer 16

whether the test has good comparison samples and standardized scores to compare test takers

Question 17

falsifiability

Answer 17

whether the test is secure against the possibility of falsifying better scores

Question 18

efficiency

Answer 18

whether the test is cheap and fast to administer

Question 19

usability

Answer 19

whether the physical, cognitive, or mental burden of participants is reasonably low