How would you classify amount of anxiety, as measured on a likert scale? Why is it important to evaluate the reliability and validity of a psychological test? Give an example of a variable that a psychologist might be interested in measuring. How would you demonstrate con...
Children's self-esteem/self-concept, a core psychological construct, has been measured in an overwhelming number of studies, and the widespread use of such measuresshould indicate they have well-established content validity, internal consistency and factor structures. This study, sampling a demographica...
Compulsive buying: Does it matter how it's measured? The primary purpose of the present study is to compare and contrast the validity and reliability of the Faber and O'Guinn [Faber, R. J., & O'Guinn, T. C. (... C Manolis,JA Roberts - 《Journal of Economic Psychology》 被引量:...
The goal of psychometrics is to providevalidity: evidence to support that interpretations of scores from the test are what we intended. If a certification test is supposed to mean that someone passing it meets the minimum standard to work in a certain job, we need a lot of evidence about t...
A 2022Nature Reviews Psychologystudy, “The Psychological Drivers of Misinformation Belief and Its Resistance to Correction,” found that mental shortcuts, motivated reasoning, and emotional influences allow misinformation to take hold and persist despite counters to its validity. Research also suggests th...
To assess the validity of our operationalization of Strong’s model, we compared its results with the output of alternative state-of-the-art text-mining techniques, and with real-world mobility patterns. Interaction types We compared the results obtained via word-matching with a state-of-the-art...
We expect that measures of enjoyment will predict the likelihood of taking on costs, thereby establishing that enjoyment is indexing reward. In the present study, we implemented a willingness to wait paradigm in two experiments. We measured participant enjoyment after reading synopses, allowing us ...
Validity comes in different forms but the most consequential for personality testing is predictive validity, which ensures that the test measures what it’s supposed to measure.5Predictive validity is typically measured with a coefficient between -1 and 1, which is called the Pearson correlation coef...
How valid is it to use number lines to measure children's conceptual knowledge about rational number? Educational Psychology, 20(2), 139-152.doi:10.1080/713663716.Ni, Y. (2000). How valid is it to use number lines to measure children's conceptual knowledge about rational number? Educational...
The validity of IQ tests has long been questioned. While these tests often purport to evaluate inherent mental abilities, factors such as nutrition, educational quality, socioeconomic status, health status, and motivation levels can all affect people's IQ scores. Research also indicates that IQ tes...