Psychometrics Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This is a practice exam I made myself in which I tried to incorporate material from the book, homework assignments and lecture slides to create questions that would be as realistic as possible. There are 20 questions in total that cover week 1 u/I from Psychometrics, with the answers as well.

What is Psychometric Theory? correct answer: Measurement of Psychological Constructs & Process of Instrument Development Direct Measurement correct answer: Medicine, Blood Tests, Labs etc What are some problems in Psychometric Theory? correct answer: 1. We are expected to make accurate diagnosis off of indirect measurements from a population who are poor historians. 2. How do we accurately measure a construct that our discipline isn't even sure exists. To complicate even further, c...

Validity correct answer: If our inference was reasonable we would say our interpretation of the behavior has a degree of validity Hypothetical constructs correct answer: Theorhetical psychological characteristics, attributes, processes, or states that cannot be directly observed Latent variables correct answer: Hypotheticsl constructs Operational definitions correct answer: Operations or procedures used to measure hypothetical constructs Interindividual differences correct answer...

structured personality test correct answer: individuals are provided with a statement and are required to choose between two or more alternative responses e.g. Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet projective personality test correct answer: unstructured test in which either the stimulus or the required response or both is ambiguous; individual provides spontaneous response rather than choosing between alternatives e.g. Rorschach test, thematic apperception test properties of scales c...

Psychological test correct answer: a set of items that is designed to measure characteristics of human beings that pertain to behavior; the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior Psychometrics correct answer: psychological measurement; the measurement of mental capacity, thought processes, aspects of personality, etc, especially by mathematical or statistical analysis of quantitative data; the science or st...

IOP4861 Exam PACK 100+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2023 WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS . lOMoARcPSD| Key focus areas 1. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOICAL ASSESSMENT Origin and development of psychological assessment in general and in the South African context Assessment is the process of measuring one or several variables of interest in order to make decisions about individuals or inferences about a population. It is the process of determining the presence of and/or the extent to which an objec...

6 guidelines for item writing correct answer: 1. define clearly what you want to measure 2. generate an item pool 3. avoid exceptionally long items 4. keep level of reading difficulty appropriate 5. avoid "double barreled items" 6. consider mixing positively and negatively worded items Dichotomous Format correct answer: A test item format in which there are two alternatives for each item. (true/false) advantages: make scoring easy, absolute judgement disadvantages: might encourage ...

In my summary you can find all the required theoretical information for this course on psychometrics. A combination of text and graphics helped me to obtain a grade of 8.8, as everything is presented in a highly structured manner. Good luck with studying! ;)