Psy 105 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSY 2012 Chapter_12_The_Individual_Mind. According to your text, what does the science of personality explore? a. global patterns of identification, socialization, and adaptation b. distinctive patterns of morals, desires, and behaviors c. unique patterns of being, perceiving, and sensing d. characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving ANSWER: d POINTS: 1 DIFFICULTY: Understand REFERENCES: What Is Personality? 2. Professor Schaefer asks Anita to explain psychodynamic th...

Exam (elaborations) LANGUAGE TESTING AND EVALUATION 10 GÁBOR SZABÓ A Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 11 1. Measurement Theory 13 1.1. General Concerns 13 1.2. Educational Measurement 15 1.3. Classical Test Theory 17 1.3.1. The True Score Model 17 1.3.2. Reliability 19 1.3.3. Validity 23 1.3.4. Traditional Item and Person Statistics 29 1.3.5. Summary 39 1.4. Item Response Theory (IRT) 40 1.4.1. Central Concepts 40 1.4.2. IRT Assumptions 44 1.4.3. IRT Models 46 1....

PSY 2012 Chapter_12_The_Individual_Mind. According to your text, what does the science of personality explore? a. global patterns of identification, socialization, and adaptation b. distinctive patterns of morals, desires, and behaviors c. unique patterns of being, perceiving, and sensing d. characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving ANSWER: d POINTS: 1 DIFFICULTY: Understand REFERENCES: What Is Personality? 2. Professor Schaefer asks Anita to explain psychodynamic th...

In the introduction to its discussion of intelligence, your text suggests that conceptions of intelligence vary cross-culturally. To the Trukese of the South Pacific, for example, intelligence may mean the ability to navigate on the open water without technological assistance; to an American high schooler, it may mean the ability to score well on standardized tests of academic achievement and aptitude. Nevertheless, one element of the understanding of intelligence that is consistent across cultu...

The Biology of Teenage Behavior What happens to the frontal cortex just before puberty? a slowing of neural communication a reduction of grey matter a growth spurt and thickening of grey matter “pruning” becomes impaired Save What is the term used to define the process by which unused cells die off? maturation degeneration termination pruning Save What kind of processing primarily occurs in the pre-frontal cortex of the bra...

PSY 2012 Chapter_12_The_Individual_Mind. According to your text, what does the science of personality explore? a. global patterns of identification, socialization, and adaptation b. distinctive patterns of morals, desires, and behaviors c. unique patterns of being, perceiving, and sensing d. characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving ANSWER: d POINTS: 1 DIFFICULTY: Understand REFERENCES: What Is Personality? 2. Professor Schaefer asks Anita to explain psychodynamic th...

PSY 7864-one-way ANOVA assess 4.1 ANOVA 2 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to apply SPSS procedures to check assumptions and calculate the one-way ANOVA that generates the relevant output for the data set provided. This paper will provide the context of the data set and the relevant variables and scales of measurement. It will also, evaluate the assumptions of the one-way ANOVA. This paper will provide a research question, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, and alpha lev...

PSY 7864-PSY7864 Unit 10 DAA One Way ANOVA Hall Nikita Data Analysis and Application (DAA): One-Way ANOVA 2 Data Analysis and Application (DAA): One-Way ANOVA For this assignment, the data file ‘’ was used. The variables utilized were section and quiz3. Section and quiz3 were used in histogram scales, along with skewness and kurtosis. A null and alternative hypothesis will be provided in this assignment, as well as alpha level, and interpretation of results for the one-way ANOVA. Se...

PSY 7864-PSY7864 Unit 6 Assignment 1 Running Head: UNIT 6 ASSIGNMENT 1 Unit 6 Assignment 1 Introduction Correlation is as easy as understanding that one thing may be an association with another, as it’s measured to analyze how precisely two variables relate. Through correlation a strong or weak relationship between variable can be seen (Warner el at, 2013). For this Unit’s assignment, a dataset will be analyzed to the assumptions of correlation for GPA and Final, as providing s...

PSY 7864-PSY7864 Unit 10 Assignment ONE-WAY ANOVA TEST 2 One-Way ANOVA Test In the field of statistics there are many tests performed in order to analyze different data sets. Each test is designed to interpret information given differently for in order to analyze different aspects of the data set. An ANOVA is one test that is commonly used in the field of statistics. The ANOVA tests according to Warner (2013) an ANOVA is used to identify part of the individual score that is within the g...