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Differential Psychology Flashcards

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1
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What does it mean to measure something?

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It means to quantify some characteristic of that thing

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What are the three different things we measure in psychology?

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physical - actual movement of perception
behavioural - how people react in a given situation
psychological -things going on in the head

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What is the criteria of good measurement?

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  • want our measures to be free from bias
  • all measurement has error associated with it
  • error is evenly distributed
  • measure should have the same meaning regardless of who or what we apply it to
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What are traits?

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Traits are:

  • possessed by individuals
  • what differentiate individuals
  • stable over time
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What are psychological traits often seen as?

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Often seen as hypothetical constructs

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What are physical traits measured on?

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They are measured on a ratio scale where each unit meant the same thing.

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What are the five things you can look at to determine how good your measure is?

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1- criterion validity
2- internal consistency
3- retest reliability
4- freedom from bias
5- measurement invariance
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What tests do we use to measure intelligence?

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IQ tests, Aptitude tests, ability tests

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What instruments do we use to measure intelligence?

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence test, Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence scale, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children, Army Alpha and Beta, Cattell’s Culture Fair Test, Raven’s Progressive Matrices, Scholastic Aptitude Test

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What are the biases in IQ tests?

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Some items are more easily answered by one group despite their being no IQ difference.

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What is the difference between types versus traits?

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Difference is whether people are classified as one thing versus another or whether you are looking at a continuum where someone is just higher or lower on some uniform dimension

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There are three types of personality traits. What are they?

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1- projective
2- objective
⤢ ⤡
empirical theoretical/factor analytic

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How are objective tests designed?

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They are empirically designed

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What does the nomothetic approach do?

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It provides a way to categorize using theory or observations and analyse data and see what happens

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What are the three types of data analysis?

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1- principal components analysis
2- factor analysis
3- cluster analysis

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What is one issue for factor analysis?

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There’s no way to tell for certain how many factors you have

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What are the five factors in the Five Factor Model?

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O, C, E, A and N

openness | conscientiousness | extraversion | agreeableness | neuroticism

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What does the standard model of social science test for?

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Typically tests for associations between some environmental exposure and behaviour (or outcome)

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What is a problem with the standard model of social science test?

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Often missing random assignments and control groups

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What is meiosis the basis of? and what is it responsible for?

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It is the basis of sexual reproduction and is responsible for genetic diversity

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What are eukaryotes?

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They are species that have cells which possess a membrane-bounded nucleus and organelles

22
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Where does meiosis take place?

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Takes place only in eukaryotes

23
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What is a nucleus?

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Nucleus is part of a cell containing DNA and RNA

24
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Where is DNA found?

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It is found on chromosomes

25
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What are organelles?

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Organelles are structures such as mitochondria

26
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What do chromosomes of diploid cells do and produce?

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They re-segregate and produce four haploid daughter cells

27
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What happens at fertilization?

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Two sets of haploid cells come together to create diploid cells that make new organism

28
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What does fertilization result in?

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Results in parent-offspring and sibling similarity

29
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What do gene-environment correlations lead to?

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Can lead to spurious correlations between family/home environment and traits

30
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Sandra Scarr and Katherine McCartney identified three types of gene environment correlations. What are they?

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1- passive (e.g. children read more as parents have loads of books in the house)
2- active (e.g. child actively asks for books)
3 - evocative (e.g. child’s genotype leads to them to experience certain kinds of environmental events)

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What are monozygotic twins?

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MZ twins develop from one fertilized egg that splits. These are clones that share 100% of their genes

32
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What are dizygotic twins?

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DZ twins develop from two separately fertilized eggs. They are full siblings and share 50% of their genes.

33
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What do genetically informative studies tell us?

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They tell us that family environments have mostly small effects

34
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What are three designs for testing age effects?

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Cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross - sequential

35
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What are cohort effects?

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They refer to historical circumstances of these individuals

36
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What is a cross sectional study?

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It is an easy study to do as its a one shot trial involving a large group of people.

37
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What is a longitudinal study?

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It is where you measure each individual in sample at least two times

38
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What is attrition?

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Attrition is if one trait is related to whether people will drop out or die before study is concluded, the remaining sample will be biased.

39
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What are practice effects?

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Practice effects are if looking at ability, having taken the test multiple times, individuals improve

40
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Cognitive function declines with age. What are the two different types of decline?

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1- Normative (non-pathological decline)

2- Dementia (pathological decline)

41
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Cognitive reserve hypothesis is difficult to measure. What does it require?

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It requires:

  • accurate measures of change in the brain
  • defining and accurately measuring the reserve
  • measures of decline in function
  • measures of the degree to which reserve supports function over what function would otherwise be
42
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What is a meta-analysis?

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It summarizes many different studies to see general effect.

43
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What does meta-analysis try an answer?

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Often tries to answer questions about how large effect is, whether effect is reliable and whether there is publication bias.

44
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What does Brent Robert et al.’s hypothesis of Social Investment Principle argue and predict?

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They argue that development in personality is a ‘transaction’ between a person and their environment. This would predict that change in personality should track certain life events

45
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What does Costa and McCrae’s Five Factor Theory say?

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They say that personality development is a biological process and they argue that stability and change should be heritable

46
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How do people often measure the size of effects of IQ?

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Often there are correlations between IQ and success

47
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Why do we find associations between job performance and general mental ability?

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  • One possibility may be that brighter people make better decisions and can learn the job more quickly.
  • social class also leads to better educational and work outcomes
48
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What is criminal behaviour associated with?

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Low IQ is associated with criminal behaviour

49
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What can explain relationship between IQ and criminal behaviour?

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One thought is that there are 2 types of empathy.

1) cognitive : understanding another’s emotional state
2) affective: share another’s emotional state

50
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What is a transformational leader?

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They have:

  • an idealized influence on people
  • inspirational motivation
  • intellectual stimulation
  • individual consideration
51
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What are some internalizing disorders?

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  • depressive disorders + suicide
  • anxiety disorders, including phobias
  • generalized anxiety disorder, OCD
  • panic disorder
  • eating disorders
52
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What are personality disorders?

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They are disorders which are rooted in people’s personalities which make it difficult for them to get along in society including:

  • interpersonal problems
  • problems with the law and coping
  • cognitive and perceptual distortions

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