Personality of Psych

is one that has been rigorously constructed such that all individuals who take the test are given the same instructions and presented with the same test material.

same criteria are employed in scoring the test for all subjects

a standard or reference that can be employed to evaluate a person's performance on a test

the subjects who are employed to standardize a test

norm group

The percentage of individuals who score equal to or less than a given score on the test

an indicator of how consistent a subject's score is on a test if the test is re-administered

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if a person retakes the test they receive about the same score

refers to whether or not a test measures what it claims to measure

an alternative measure of the trait/characteristic the test claims to measure

a measure against which scores on a psychological test under construction are compared with in order to determine if the test is valid

teacher's ratings of students intelligence

when a new test is being developed it is not uncommon that the criterion measure employed to evaluate the new test is a preexisting test that measures the same trait

the extent to which a test appears to be measuring a specific trait or ability, based purely on an examination of the content of the items/stimuli which comprise the test

empirical data (observable data/ evidence), which demonstrates that the test measures what it claims to measure

face validity

Making serious decisions and or predictions about people

if the scores on the test have been empirically demonstrated to predict some criterion behavior

on a test is one which statistically discriminates between people who do well on the test and people who do poorly on a test

discriminating people who are high on a trait from people who are low on a triat

a true-false test which measures extroversion would be one that 90% of people who are extreme extroverts answer true, but only 10% of people who are extreme introverts answer true

one in which for each item there are a limited number of alternatives from which a subject must choose his/her response

omnibus personality inventories (myers briggs, Neo-pi)

when a person taking a personality test does not answer questions on the basis of what one really believes or feels, but instead answers the questions in order to create a specific impression of oneself

social desirability

the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale

when a person taking a personality test responds in a relatively fixed or random manner to the test stimuli/items

which a person tends to answer questions true, regardless of the content of a question and or agree with all or most of the questions on the likert scale

which a person tends to answer questions false, regardless of the content of a question and disagree on the likert scale

a set of items/questions on a personality test which are intended to identify subjects who are dishonest or inattentive in responding

to identify subjects who adopt a response set or a response style on a test

scale is comprised of items almost all people answer one way

is one which by virtue of its content does not reveal the trait it is measuring

discriminate which a group or subject is a member

a test in which a subject presented with an ambiguous stimulus and asked to interpret/ complete it (ink blot test)