Development
Personality
Which statistic to use?
Levels of measurement
it could be anything
100
This theorist discussed levels of moral development.
Who is Kohlberg? (ie conventional, post conventional)
100
A 32 year old machine shop worker decides to go back to school full time. This person is likely to experience a change in this.
What is social role?
100
This measure of central tendency would be the most informative if there is a very unusual score (outlier) in a set of scores.
What is the median?
100
Gender is an example of a variable measured on this scale.
What is nominal?
100
This is the most interesting personality theorist.
Who is ...... ????? (why?)
200
This, along with warmth, is an especially important parenting characteristic, according to developmental psychologists.
What is control?
200
This is the first stage of Erikson's psychosocial development.
What is basic trust vs mistrust?
200
If you know the population standard deviation, and have a sample greater than 30, this is the test you should use.
What is a z test?
200
Weight is an example of this level of measurement.
What is ratio level of measurement?
200
This is the mean of the following numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1
What is 6?
300
This developmental trend indicates that the head region develops before the foot region.
What is cephalocaudal trend?
300
This is the last stage of Erikson's psychosocial development.
What is Ego Integrity vs Despair?
300
When you have two different levels of one independent variable, and if you do NOT know the population standard deviation, and you have a normal distribution of scores, this is the test you should use.
What is a t-test?
300
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are an example of this type of measurement.
What is ordinal level of measurement?
300
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? The answer to the previous question is this level of measurement.
What is ratio level of measurement?
400
This stage of development, according to Piaget, is one in which children can think logically and flexibly.
What is concrete operational?
400
According to Holland, a small business owner is likely to score highest on this personality dimension.
What is enterprising?
400
If you do not know the population standard deviation and you have three groupings of an independent variable, this is the test you should use.
What is an ANOVA?
400
This level of measurement has the property of both identity and magnitude, equal intervals and absolute zero
What is a ratio level of measurement?
400
This is what you should say to someone who tells you that because two things are related, it must mean that one of them caused the other to happen.
What is correlation does not prove causation?
500
Understanding that 1 cup of water is still 1 cup of water, regardless if it is in a tall or a short glass, is and example of understanding this concept (Piaget).
What is conservation?
500
According to Maslow, this is the "highest" need.
What is self-actualization?
500
If you are looking for how two variables are related to each other, you should use this type of statistic?
What is a correlation?
500
This scale of measurement has the properties of identity, magnitude, and equal intervals, but NOT of absolute zero.
What is interval level of measurement?
500
Saying the word "red" instead of "blue" when the word "blue" is written in red ink is an example of this.
What is the Stroop Effect?
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