Deck 7 Flashcards
Values
beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living, like honesty, integrity, patriotism, respect and fairness.
Morals
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.
Ethics
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.
MMPI-2
The Minnesota Multuphasic Personality Inventory. A self-report questionnaire that measures personality traits.
Strong Interest Holland’s 6 Inventory
One of two career and interest measures developed from types. The other is the self-directed search.
Self-directed search
One of two career interest measures developed from Holland’s 6 types. The other is the strong interest inventory.
MBTI
Myers Briggs type indicator, a personality inventory based on Jung’s 4 continuums of personality: Introvert-extrovert, thinking-feeling, sensing-ituiting, and judging-percieving
Spearman’s g
The theory that one ability underlies all intelligence. The G stands for intelligence.
PHQ-9
A self-report questionnaire designed to screen for depression
SBIRT
A brief intervention for assessment of substance use disorders. It stands for screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment
Flynn effect
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
IQ
A meaner of intelligence (intelligence quotient). Calculation: mental age/chronological age x100
Construct Validity
The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure
Criterion Validity
How one set of variables predicts an outcome on another set.
Predictive validity
the degree to which any measure can predict future or independent past events
Reliability
How consistent a test is a measuring an attribute
Item difficulty index
determined by the number of test takers and dividing it by the number of correct answers for an item
Occam’s Razor
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.
Type 1 error
Rejects the null hypotheses when it is true. Also known as an alpha error
Type 2 error
Accepts the null hypothesis when it is false. Also known as a beta error
Median
The middle score in a data set, when listen in numerical order
Mode
The most frequently occurring score in a data set
Mean
The statistical average of the scores in a data set
Measures of central tendency
in research methods, the measures of central tendency are mean, median and mode
