Imagine That You Want to Develop a Test to Measure

question 79

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. You are using a(n) ________ method of test construction.

• A) factor analytic
• B) rational
• C) projective
• D) empirical

Understand the effective use of planners and scheduling for academic success.

Grasp effective study strategies and the importance of focused and uninterrupted study time.

Understand the significance of various types of frequencies (frequency, relative cumulative frequency, cumulative frequency, relative frequency) in a frequency distribution table.

Calculate z-scores using mean and standard deviation.

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Definitions:

Mnemonic Devices

Techniques a person can use to help them improve their ability to remember something.

Priming

A technique in psychology used to train an individual's memory in both perceptual and conceptual forms.

Serial Position Effect

A cognitive phenomenon where items at the beginning and end of a list are more likely to be remembered than those in the middle.

Effortful Processing

The active process of trying to remember, learn, or understand something, which requires attention and deliberate effort.