psychological validity

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• Psychological testing — is a field characterized by the use of samples of behavior in order to infer generalizations about a given individual. The technical term for the science behind psychological testing is psychometrics. By samples of behavior , one means… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological mindedness — (PM) is a concept which refers to an individual s capacity for self examination, self observation, introspection and personal insight.Fact|date=March 2008 It also includes an ability to recognize and see the links between current problems within… …   Wikipedia

• psychological testing — Use of tests to measure skill, knowledge, intelligence, capacities, or aptitudes and to make predictions about performance. Best known is the IQ test; other tests include achievement tests designed to evaluate a student s grade or performance… …   Universalium

• Validity (statistics) — In psychology, validity has two distinct fields of application. The first involves test validity, a concept that has evolved with the field of psychometrics but which textbooks still commonly gloss over in explaining that it is the degree to… …   Wikipedia

• Cue validity — is the conditional probability that an object falls in a particular category given a particular feature or cue. The term was popularized by Beach (1964), Reed (1972) and especially by Eleanor Rosch in her investigations of the acquisition of so… …   Wikipedia

• Construct validity — In science (e.g. social sciences and psychometrics), construct validity refers to whether a scale measures or correlates with the theorized psychological scientific construct (e.g., fluid intelligence ) that it purports to measure. In other words …   Wikipedia

• California Psychological Inventory — The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) is a self report inventory created by Harrison Gough and currently published by Consulting Psychologists Press. It was created in a similar manner to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory… …   Wikipedia

• Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing — The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing is a set of testing standards developed jointly by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in… …   Wikipedia

• Qualitative psychological research — In psychology, qualitative research has come to be defined as research whose findings are not arrived at by statistical or other quantitative procedures. Qualitative research is often said to be naturalistic . That is, its goal is to understand… …   Wikipedia

• Internal validity — is the validity of (causal) inferences in scientific studies, usually based on experiments as experimental validity [ Mitchell, M. and Jolley, J. (2001). Research Design Explained (4th Ed) New York:Harcourt.] . Details Inferences are said to… …   Wikipedia

• Concurrent validity — is a parameter used in sociology, psychology, and other psychometric or behavioral sciences. Concurrent validity is demonstrated where a test correlates well with a measure that has previously been validated. The two measures may be for the same… …   Wikipedia