PSY 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scatter Plot, Construct Validity, Op-Ed

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 301
• Professor: Dudukovic

Document Summary

This is a general guide to topics that may be covered on the second exam. The exam material is drawn from class sessions and reading assignments. For each of the vocabulary words and concepts listed below, you should be able to (1) define it; (2) recognize it; (3) give examples of it; and (4) apply it. Types of validity in question in the iacoboni et al. Construct validity: not possible to definitively determine whether a person is anxious or feeling connected simply by looking at activity in a particular brain region. Brain regions are engaged by many mental states, so one to one mapping between brain region and mental state is not possible. Self-report measure: recording people"s answers to questions about themselves. Observational measure: recording observable behaviors or physical traces. Categories, nominal scale (names), levels with numbers that don"t have meaning. Ordinal scale: when numerals represent a ranked order.