Deck 7

Question 1

Values

Answer 1

beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living, like honesty, integrity, patriotism, respect and fairness.

Question 2

Morals

Answer 2

Concerned with perspectives of right and proper conduct and involves an evaluation of actions on the basis of some broader cultural context or religious standard.

Question 3

Ethics

Answer 3

Beliefs we hold about what constitutes right conduct. If we act in accordance with our beliefs and values, we are acting ethically. In not, we are acting unethically.

Question 4

MMPI-2

Answer 4

The Minnesota Multuphasic Personality Inventory. A self-report questionnaire that measures personality traits.

Question 5

Strong Interest Holland’s 6 Inventory

Answer 5

One of two career and interest measures developed from types. The other is the self-directed search.

Question 6

Self-directed search

Answer 6

One of two career interest measures developed from Holland’s 6 types. The other is the strong interest inventory.

Question 7

MBTI

Answer 7

Myers Briggs type indicator, a personality inventory based on Jung’s 4 continuums of personality: Introvert-extrovert, thinking-feeling, sensing-ituiting, and judging-percieving

Question 8

Spearman’s g

Answer 8

The theory that one ability underlies all intelligence. The G stands for intelligence.

Question 9

PHQ-9

Answer 9

A self-report questionnaire designed to screen for depression

Question 10

SBIRT

Answer 10

A brief intervention for assessment of substance use disorders. It stands for screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment

Question 11

Flynn effect

Answer 11

The phenomenon used to explain the increase in average IQ scores over time. Flynn demonstrated an average rate of increase of 3 IQ points per decade in the USA

Question 12

IQ

Answer 12

A meaner of intelligence (intelligence quotient). Calculation: mental age/chronological age x100

Question 13

Construct Validity

Answer 13

The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure

Question 14

Criterion Validity

Answer 14

How one set of variables predicts an outcome on another set.

Question 15

Predictive validity

Answer 15

the degree to which any measure can predict future or independent past events

Question 16

Reliability

Answer 16

How consistent a test is a measuring an attribute

Question 17

Item difficulty index

Answer 17

determined by the number of test takers and dividing it by the number of correct answers for an item

Question 18

Occam’s Razor

Answer 18

A problem solving principle. It posits that among competing hyphothesis, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Put another way: Often the simplest, least complicated answer is the correct one.

Question 19

Type 1 error

Answer 19

Rejects the null hypotheses when it is true. Also known as an alpha error

Question 20

Type 2 error

Answer 20

Accepts the null hypothesis when it is false. Also known as a beta error

Question 21

Median

Answer 21

The middle score in a data set, when listen in numerical order

Question 22

Mode

Answer 22

The most frequently occurring score in a data set

Question 23

Mean

Answer 23

The statistical average of the scores in a data set

Question 24

Measures of central tendency

Answer 24

in research methods, the measures of central tendency are mean, median and mode

Question 25

Measures of Variability

Answer 25

In research methods, the measures of variability are range and standard deviation

Question 26

standard deviation

Answer 26

the amount of variation from the average

Question 27

t-score

Answer 27

a standard score which has a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10

Question 28

z-score

Answer 28

a standard score which has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15