PSY 331 Questions and Answers

projective test - Correct Answer a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics objective test - Correct Answer unambiguous self-reports Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - Correct Answer a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes reliability - Correct Answer consistency of measurement validity - Correct Answer The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure internal reliability - Correct Answer in a measure that contains several items, the consistency in a pattern of answers, no matter how a question is phrased test-retest reliability - Correct Answer a method for determining the reliability of a test by comparing a test taker's scores on the same test taken on separate occasions predictive validity - Correct Answer The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict convergent validity - Correct Answer measure is related to other similar measures triangulation - Correct Answer the use of multiple methods to study one research question correlation - Correct Answer strength of association standard deviation - Correct Answer statistic that indicates how far the score is from the average (mean) normal distribution - Correct Answer a bell-shaped curve, describing the spread of a characteristic throughout a population normal distribution - one SD above and below mean - Correct Answer 2/3 of people score within one SD of mean; almost 95% of scores are within 2 SD's of the mean type - Correct Answer discontinuous categories; represent qualitative differences in people; somatotypes; phrenology trait - Correct Answer continuous dimensions; represents quantitative differences in people; strongly influenced by environment