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MEAUREMENT AND METHODOLOGY

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  • assessment behaviours, attitudesm mental constructs personality, and mental health
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Intelligence

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  • mental construct specifically defined
  • intelligence is NOT IQ
  • IQ is score of inteligence
  • unlikely that IQ captures all intelligence
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Alfred Binet

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  • developed IQ and first IQ test (Binet Scale) = mental age/chronological age x 100
  • Intelligence stops developing after age 16
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Mean IQ of Americans

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  • is 100

- SD = 15 or 16

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Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

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  • revised version of Binet’s intelligence test

- best known predictor of future academic achievement

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Lewis Terman

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  • from standford university and revised the Binet Intelligence Scale
  • studies of children with higher IQ are better adjusted (gifted children)
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

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  • most commin IQ test for dults

- organized by subtests

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Wescler Intelligece Scale for Children (WAIS-R)

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  • for children age 6-16
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Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)

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  • for children age 4-6
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Goodenough Draw a Man Test

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  • notable for cros cultural application an simple directions to draw the very best picture
  • are marked via detial and accuracy, not talent
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IQ correlates mostly with who?

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  • biological parents and socioeconomic status of parents (income or job type)
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John Horn and Cattell

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  • found fluid intelligence decines with old age and cyrstaliized intelignece does not
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Robert Zajonc

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  • relationship between birth order and intelligence
  • firstborns more intellignece than 2nd
  • greater spaces between children = higher intelligence
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Charles Spearman

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  • general factor in human intellignece called “g”
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Achievement test

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  • measure how well you know a particular subject

- measure past learning

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Aptitude test

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  • meaure your innate ability

- predict future perofmrance

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Objective test

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  • subects can’t make own answers, are already structure
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Structure test

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  • more objectively scored than projective tests

- most are self-reported (but still subject to response bias)

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Q-sort, Q-measure techniques

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  • process of sorting cards into normal distrbution
  • each card with a personality statmente and neutral ones and place at the hump and definind or undefining cards are put into the sides
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Mineesota Multiphasic personality Inventory (MMPI)

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  • OG for mental illnes but now a peronality meaure
  • T/F questions
  • items to discriminate between different disorders
  • high validity becau of items and 3 validity scales (lying, carelessness, faking)
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California Personality Inventory (CPI)

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  • use for more “normal” and less clinical groups
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Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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  • derived from Jung’s personality theory (archetypes)
  • 2 answer per question then given 4 letter personality type
    1) introvert/extravert
    2) sensing/intuition
    3) feeling/thinking
    4) judgment/perception
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Julain Rotter

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  • creater internal/external locus of control
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Projective tests

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  • subjects to create own answer through expression of conflicts, need, impulses
  • content is interpreted by administrators
  • some may be score objectively
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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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  • subject desrcibe what they see in 10 inkblot
  • complex scoring
  • questionable validity
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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  • cards of interpersonal scences are shown and subject tells story of each card to reveal personality
  • used to measure need for achievmenet
  • needs, press, persnology are terms with test
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Reosenweig Picture Frustration (p-F) stud

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  • cartoons where 1 person is frustrating the other

- subject ask to describe how frustated person responds

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Word Association Test

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  • used in conjucnction with free association tecniques

- word called out, subject says next word that comes to mind

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Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank

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  • similar to word association

- subject finish sentences

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Draw a Person Test

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  • asks subject to draw a person of each sex and tell a story about them
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Beck Depression Inventory (BD)

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  • not to diagnose depression but for severity of depressive symptoms and track course of symptoms
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Empirical-keying or criterion keying approach

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  • constructing assessment instruments invovles selection of items that discriminate between various groups
  • response determines if person is in particular group or not
  • e.g. Strong-Campbell Interest INventory
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Vocational Test

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  • what extent individual’s interest and strengths match those already found by professionals in particualr job field
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Lie detector test

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  • measure arousal of sympathetic nervous system which becomes stimulated by lying (and anxiety)
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walter Mischel

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  • critical of personality trait-theory and personality tests in general
  • felt situations decided actions (not traits)
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Anne Anastasi

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  • researched intelligence in relation to performance
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F-scale or F-ratio

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  • measurement of facism or authoritarian personality
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Bayley Sclaes of Infant Developent

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  • not intelligene tests
  • mesure senory/motor development of infants to identify mentally retarded children
  • poor predictors of later intelligence
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Research design

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  • how research attempts to examine hypothesis
  • differnt quetions = different approachs
  • some are called more scientific than others
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Scientific approach to psychology involves (3)

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1) testable hypothesis
2) reporductible experiment can be replicated
3) operationalized defintiion of concept under study

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Field study

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  • takes place in naturalistic setting
  • less control over enviornment
  • generates more hpyothesis than can be proved
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Experimental design

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  • takes place in controlled setting

- draw causal conslusions from experiment

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IV

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  • manipulates IV by applying it in experimental or treatment condition by withhodling if from the control condition
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DV

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  • does not control the dependent variable but examineshow IV effects the DV
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Confounding variable

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  • attempts to minimize or eliminate confounds

- variables in environment that might also affect DV and blue effect of IV on DV

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Sample or subgroup

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  • drawn from population bc is impossible to include all members
  • sample must be representative of population and unabiased
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Random sampling

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  • applied to achieve representative population and unbias sample
  • every member of population has an equal chance of getting chosen
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Conviencance sampling

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  • used when random sampling is not possible e.g. a group of psych students
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Stratified sampling

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  • to make results more generalizable then convienanc sampling
  • aims to match emographic characteritcs of sample to demographics of population
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Longitudinal design

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  • studying same objects at differnt points in lifespand and provides better, mored valid result than most other methods
  • time consuming
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Cross-sectional design

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  • different subjects of different ages are compared

- faster, easier than longitudinal

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Cohort-sequential design

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  • combines longiudeninal and cross-sectional approaches
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Within-subjects

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  • test same person at multiple time points and looks at chnges within person
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Between-subject design

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  • compares 2 groups of ppl at the same time point
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Quasi-experimental esign

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  • compares 2 groups of people but design is used when it is not feasible/ethical to use random assignment e.g. you cannot assign one group to smoke for 20 years
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Double-blind

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  • experiments when neither subject nor experimenter knowns whether subject is assigned treatment or control
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Placebo

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  • inactive substance disgused as substance in control group
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Predicitve value

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  • degree to which IV can predict DV
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Generalizability

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  • degree to which results from experiment can be applied to population and real world
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Acquiescence

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  • when ppl agree with opppsing statment

- “careless” responding

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Cohort effects

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  • effect that might result when group is born and raised in particular time period
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Demand characteristic

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  • subject act in way that they think experimenter wants or expects
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Experimenter bias

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  • researchers see what they want to see
  • AKA rosenthal effect
  • minimized in double blind experiment
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Rosenthal effect AKA

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  • AKA experimenter bias
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Hawthorne effect

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  • subjects alter their behaviour because they know they are being observed
  • applies to workers altering their behaviour for the same reason
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Nonequivalent control group

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  • problematic type of control group when an equivalent canot be isolated
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Placebo effect

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  • subjects behave different because thy think they have recieved treatment substance or condition
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Reactance

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  • attitude change in response to feeeling that options are limited
  • e.g. someone is set on a type of ice cream flavour when they find out it is sold out
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Selective attrition

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  • when subjects that drop out of an experiment are different from those that reamin
  • remaining sample is no longer random (morality effects)
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Social desirability

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  • when subjects do and say what they think puts them in a favourable light
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Illusory correlation

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  • when a relationship is inferred when there is actually is none
  • e.g. people insist a relationship exists between physical and personality characteristics depsite evidence tht no such relationship exits
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Meta-analysis

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  • study that mathematically comvines and summarize overall effects of research findings for topic
  • calcualte 1 overall effect size
  • needed when conflicting results are found
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Insittuional review board (IRB)

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  • all studies have to pass ethical standards
  • all subjects are provided with risk and benefit of being in study and then sign a consent form
  • Milgram experiment (electric shocks) was the catalyst for higher ethical standards in psychological research
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Statistics

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  • process of repreenting or analyzing numerical data
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Descriptive statistics

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  • organize data from a sample by showing it in a meaningful way
  • do not allow conclusions to be drawn beyond by the sample
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Percentiles

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  • most common on standardized test

- shows position in whole group

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Frequenecy distrubutions

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  • how data in study looked

- might show how often different variables appeared

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Nominal variables

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  • descriptive bames

- no order or relationship among variables but grouping

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Ordinal variables

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  • implies order

- nothing else is known (equal spacing not assumed)

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Interval variables

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  • implies order and equal spacing
  • do NOT include a real zero
  • 0 is arbiturary and does not signify absence of temperature
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Ratio variable

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  • have order, equal intervals and a real zero e.g. age - incrases by a year, increases and has an absolute 0
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Graphs

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  • used to plot zero
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Frequency polygon

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  • plotted points connected by lines

- often used to plot continuous varaibles

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Histogram

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  • consists of vertical bars in which the sides of vertical bars touch
  • for discrete varisbles that have clear boundaries
  • interval variables where there is order
  • bars lined up in order
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Bar graph

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  • vertical lines in historgram but o not touch
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Measures of central tendecny

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  • where on a number line the data set falls in general

- 3 types of central tendecny (mean, mode, median)

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Mean

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  • average

- affected by high scores (outliers)

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Standard error of the mean

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  • calculate how “off” the mean might be in either direction
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Median

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  • find the middle of the set
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Mode

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  • most frquenctly occuring value
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Variability

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  • additional informtion to central tendency by telling you how the scores are spread out overall
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Range

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  • basic measure of variability but subtracting lowest to highest value
  • is the spread
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Variance/standard deviation

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  • how much variation there is among the number in distrubution
    1) how much each score differs from mean
    2) square each deviation
    3) add all deviations = sum of square
    4) divided by n = variance
    4) take square root of variance = standard deviation
  • large = highly disperesed
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Normal distribution

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  • AKA bell curve
  • larger sample = greater chance of bell curve
  • unimodal (one hump) –> mean, median and mode are all equal
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z-scores

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  • normal distribution
  • how many standard deviations a score is from the mean
  • usually -3 to 3
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t-score

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  • transformation of z-score
  • mean = 50
  • SD = 10
    = t= 10(Z)+50
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Standard normal distribution

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  • same thing as normal distribution
  • mean = 0
  • SD = 1
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Correlations

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  • part of statistics but neither purely descriptive nor purely inferential
  • show relationships NOT causlity between variables
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Positive correlation

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  • simple and linear

- one increases, so does other variable

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Negative correlation

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  • simple and liner

- as one variable goes down, the other goes up

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Cuvilinear correaltion

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  • not simple and linear

- looks like a curved line e.g. arousal and performance

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Zero correlation

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  • no relationship between the variables
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Person r correlation coefficient

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  • way of numerically calculating and expressing correlations
  • range from -1 to +1
  • -1 = perfect negative correlation
  • +1 = perfect positive correlation
  • 0 = no relationship
  • strength of relationship is how close it is to -1 or +1
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Spearman r correlation coefficient

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  • another correlation and used when the data in form of rank
  • used to determine the line of linear relationships
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z scores with what percentile rank?

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34:14:2

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Regression

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  • step above simple correaltions

- looks are the variance accounted for

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Statitical regression

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  • identify relatioship between 2 variables and makes predictions about 1 variable based on another varible
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Inferential statistics

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  • allows generalizability from sample to population
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Statistics

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  • numbers that descirbe the sample
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Parameters

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  • numbers that describe the popultion
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Significance

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  • if numbers that desribe the sample are describing real differences or pattern rather than random variable
  • if significant, research can generalize the same findings to population
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Test of significance

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  • hoping to reject the null hypothesis (hypotheis that no real differences exisit)
  • test of significant shows that statiscs were significant and that you can reject the null hypotheis
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Alpha level

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  • a significance level used by most of
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Type 1 error

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  • incorrectly reject the null hypothesis

- a false positive

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Type 2 error

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  • incorrecty accept the null hypothesis

- a flase negative

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T-tests

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  • compare means of 2 different groups to see if groups are truely different
  • analyze continuous data
  • can not test for more than 2 groups
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Chi-square

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  • when n are classified into categories or cells
  • tells us whether the groups are significantly different in size
  • look at patterns or distributions (not means)
  • analyze categorical or discrete data
  • can assess “goodness of fit” - whether pattern is what would be expected
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Categorical/discrete data

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  • data that has been countd rather than measured so limited to positive and whole numbers (usually)
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ANOVA

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  • popular because of flexibility

- analyze differences among means of continuous variables but it more flexible because more than 2 groups

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1 way ANOVA

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  • tests whether the means on one outcome or DV are significantly diffferent across groups
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2 way ANOVA

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  • test the effects of 2 independnet variables or treatment conditions at once
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Factorial analysis of variance

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  • used when an experiment involves more than one IV
  • can separate the effects of different levels of different beariables
  • split each IV into levels which yield combinations
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Main effects (factor analysis)

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  • the effect of IV on DV
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Interaction effects (factor analysis)

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  • combine the IV

- effects of DV change depending on the level of IV

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Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)

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  • tests whether at least 2 roups co-vary

- can adjust for preexisting differences between groups

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Linear Regression

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  • allows use of correlation coefficients in order to predict one variable from another variable
  • meaure relationship but don’t describe the relationship
  • use correlational data to make predictions based on a line fit with the least-squares method
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Creating tests with statistics

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  • ensure that measures are on target
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Standardized test

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  • used to create norms and tried out on huge groups of people
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Criterion-reference test

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  • measure master parituclar subject e.g. final exam
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Domain-referenced test

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  • measure less-defined properties e.g. intelligence and need be checked for reliability and validity
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Reliability

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  • how stable the measure is
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Test-re-test reliability

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  • measured by the same individual taking the same test more than once
  • high test re-test = person would et the same core each time
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Split-half reliability

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  • comparing an individuals’ performance on 2 halves of th same test
  • reveals internal consistency of test
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Item analysis

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  • increase internal consistency
  • analyze how large group responded to each item on the meaure
  • weeds out problematic items and replaced with better questions with discriminatory value
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Validity

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  • how well the test mesures a construct
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Internal validity

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  • the extent to which the different items within a measure “hang together” and test the same thing
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External validity (4)

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  • extent to which test measure what is intends to measure
    1) concurrent
    2) construct
    3) content
    4) face
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Concurrent validity

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  • whether scores on new measure positively correlate with other measures known to test the same construct
  • AKA cross validation
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Construct validity

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  • whether the test really taps he abstract concept being measured
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Content validity

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  • whether the content of the test covers a good sample of the construct being measured (not just part of it)
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Face validity

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  • whether the test items simply look like they measure the construc
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Campbell & Fiske

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  • created the multitrait-multimethod technique to determine the validity of test

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