Match the Descriptor with the Correct Term

question 28

Multiple Choice

Match the descriptor with the correct term.
-Recall bias

• A)Faulty memory
• B)The tendency to select persons under frequent medical care
• C)The tendency to ask questions differently or probe more if it is known that the person has the disease
• D)Quantifies the amount of risk due to a certain characteristic Ire/IRo
• E)The ability of a test instrument to measure what it is supposed to measure
• F)Identified by pre-existing records developed in the past
• G)Accumulated period of time each person is in the study
• H)Percent of all True non-cases correctly identified
• I)Reliability between more than one research assistant or observer
• J)Examples: all new employees within a hospital, all new students in the first grade

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Definitions:

Stereotype Threat

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's social group, which can hinder performance in activities related to those stereotypes.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situational factors in explaining other people's behavior.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to pay more attention to certain stimuli or aspects of the environment over others, often affecting judgments and decisions.

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.