Psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Final Psychological Testing and Measurement Exam with 100% Correct Answers test *Ans* measurement device/technique used to quantify behavior or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior projective test *Ans* (personality domains) tests in which the stimulus or required response (or both) are ambiguous objective test *Ans* (personality domains) with the non-ambiguous stimulus and response, the scoring system of this test is far more clear psychological test *Ans* a set of ...

Mid-Term Exam: Psychological Testing and Assessment [with 100% Correct Answers] What is a psychological test? *Ans* A psychological test is an objective procedure for sampling and quantifying human behaviour to make an inference about a particular psychological construct using standardised stimuli, and methods of administration and scoring. Whats the difference between psychological test and psychological assessment? *Ans* Psychological testing - the process of administering a psyc...

Latest Psychological Testing EXAM 2 [Ch 5-8] with 100% Correct Answers Alternate forms reliability estimate *Ans* constructing different forms of the same test from a common pool of measurement items, giving them to a group of people, and determining the degree of consistency between them base rate *Ans* an index, usually expressed as a proportion, of the extent to which a particular trait, behavior, characteristic, or attribute exists in a population. bias *Ans* A factor inherent wit...

Psychological Testing and Assessment Chapter 2 QUIZ with 100% Correct Answers Charles Darwin *Ans* spurred scientific interest in individual differences Francis Galton *Ans* classify people according to their natural gifts, devising or contributing to the development of many contemporary tools of psychological assessment including questionnaires, rating scares, and self-report inventories Wilhelm Max Wundt *Ans* founded the first experimental psychology laboratory, focused on how pe...

Aim A general expression of what the researcher intends to investigate Hypothesis A precise and operationalised statement about the assumed relationship between variables Directional Hypothesis States the direction of the predicted difference between two conditions or two groups of participants Non-directional Hypothesis Predicts simply that there is a difference between two conditions or two groups of participants without stating the direction of the difference Independent Variabl...

what is your sex? whether you are biologically male or female what is your gender? the way you act and identify yourself what is 'androgynous'? having a balanced combination of masculine and feminine characteristics what are sex-roles? the particular behaviours expected of men and women what are sex-role stereotypes? ideas about sex-roles that are widely held but tend to be narrow, inflexible, and over generalised 2 what was bem's self-report questionnaire known as? the bem sex ...

Who is associated with the emergence of psychology as a science? Wundt What is 'introspection'? The first systematic attempt at examining thought processes using feelings, emotions and sensations. What are the key assumptions of the biological approach? Behaviour originates from biological structures: genes, nervous system and neurochemistry. What are the 3 causes of behaviour according to the biological approach? Genes and evolution, biological structures and neurochemistry. What ...

Psychology The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those functions affecting behaviour in a given context Science A means of acquiring knowledge through systematic and objective observation, with the aim to discover general laws Introspection (Wundt) The first systematic experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thoughts, images and sensations Cartesian dualism (Descartes) The mind and body are ind...

Sex Whether an individual is biologically male or female Gender The social and psychological characteristics of males and females Sex-role stereotypes Types of qualities and characteristics seen as appropriate for each sex Female sex-role stereotypes Nurturing, co-operative, domestic, emotional, passive Male sex-role stereotypes Strong, independent, physical, aggressive, unemotional Sources of sex-role stereotypes 2 Primary socialisation, school, careers, media, culture, Seavey (197...

What type of disorder is depression? A mood disorder What are the two types of depression? Major depressive disorder - 2+ weeks of a major depressive episode Persistent depressive disorder - long term and/or re-occurring depressive episodes Cognitive characteristics of depression Irrational and negative self beliefs Emotional characteristics of depression Negative emotions e.g. sadness, apathy, anger Behavioural characteristics of depression Increased or decreased levels of activity, e...