PSY-P 211 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Stroop Effect, Social Influence, Null Hypothesis
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Construct validity refers to effectiveness of the tool: the degree to which a test measures what it claims, or purports, to be measuring, using the right tool to measure the right thing. Intelligence, motivation, anxiety cant measure these directly so you use an indirect way to figure it out. Iq tests: future income, e , pare(cid:374)t edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374), ra(cid:272)e. The implicit association test: the iat is a somewhat reliable measure, but it has a questionable construct validity. Iat is implicit measure survey is an explicit measure. Write a survey that also measures the same construct that the iat is getting at. You"re (cid:374)ot the first: many other researchers have looked at the relationship between the iat and explicit measures, (cid:862)the (cid:373)ai(cid:374) goal of the p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t (cid:373)eta-analysis was to investigate the relation between the. Iat and explicit self-(cid:396)epo(cid:396)ts (cid:863: what is a meta-analysis, a study that uses, as its data, a large number of previous studies.
