PSYC 3020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Central Tendency, False Positives And False Negatives, Internal Consistency
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Psyc 3020 test & measurement exam i review. For a comprehensive review of the material, please read all assigned abbreviated readings, and review all class lectures. Terms to know: psychological tests, sample of behavior. Person"s attribute (attitudes or personality extroversion ), or performance outcome (e. g. , memory or communication). Not exhaustive measure of what one can do, but focusing on relevant constructs- must be representative and important to purpose for measuring: obtain under standardized conditions. Must reflect person"s typical ability or disposition. Try to reduce degree to which test conditions, or test itself interferes with what"s measured. All others taking test should be exposed to same conditions (e. g. , sat same everywhere you take it across the country). Individual tests are hard to standardize because of personal contract: uses systematic rules for scoring numeric information. Scoring rules- quantitative way to describe information must be comprehensive, well defined, and applied in the same way to the scoring of all tests.
