Week 3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What are implicit motives?
Implicit motives are goals that are important to a person that cannot be consciously expressed.
Are projective assessments a reliable method to measure implicit motives?
No
How do researchers think they can measure implicit motives? Via self-reporting or something else?
Self-reporting is not reliable because individuals are unable to express their implicit motivations. Researchers think projective assessments can measure implicit motives.
What is the theory of implicit bias testing?
People who implicitly, or nonconsciously, have a certain bias, will respond differently on a bias test than people who do not hold that bias.
Is implicit bias testing reliable?
Implicit bias testing has moderate reliability and validity.
What is a projective test?
A test that present a person with an ambiguous stimulus and asks him or her to describe what is seen.
Define “ambiguous stimulus”
Stimulus which can be interpreted in more than one way.
Define “reliability” in relation to assessments
The consistency of test scores across repeated assessments.
I.E. Examining the extent to how often scores change over time.
What is “test-retest” reliability?
The higher the test-retest reliability, the more likely you will score similar results when taking the assessment again.
Define “validity” in relation to assessments
The evidence related to the interpretation and use of scores.
What is “construct” validity?
The degree to which something measures what it claims to measure.
I.E. If a test claims it is measuring bias, can it really prove to measure bias?
What are objective tests?
A personality test that consists of a list of questions to be answered by the subject as true or false or on a numeric scale.
What is the principle of aggregation?
Aggregation includes adding more questions to an assessment, that are asking the same question in different ways, or trying to assess a construct in different ways.
Why is aggregation important in objective test?
Aggregation helps determine which traits are more likely to match a specific person depending on how they answer similarly phrased questions.
What is the most commonly used objective personality test?
The MMPI-2 which consists of 567 questions.
True or False:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ALLOW psychological or personality tests that provides medical information.
False - they do not.
What are “matching algorithms”?
Formulas attempting to match people for compatibility for dating and partnership.
True or False:
Matching algorithms cannot predict relationship compatibility.
True
What are “psychographics”?
The process of collecting behavioral data by observing and measuring groups of people, as a means to segment people and groups by personality.
I.E. Facebook tracking what people like to advertise specific products to them.
What is “typology”?
An assessment of personality variables and how they interact, and then combining these variables can accurately describe a “type of person”.
What are examples of typology assessments?
Myers Briggs or Enneagram
What are examples of objective tests?
Five-Factor Model or HEXACO
True or False:
Typology research thus far does predict behavior beyond what can be predicted with quantitative trait scores.
False
Define “confirmation bias”
The belief that once you hear information regarding yourself, you then fit that information to your situation and bias.
