psychological variable

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• 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

• variable realization — Descriptions of a thing at one level can be true in virtue of some underlying properties, in the way that the description of a computer as running such and such a program is true in virtue of the configurations of its circuitry. It may then be… …   Philosophy dictionary

• Latent variable — In statistics, latent variables (as opposed to observable variables), are variables that are not directly observed but are rather inferred (through a mathematical model) from other variables that are observed and directly measured. They are also… …   Wikipedia

• Latent variable model — A latent variable model is a statistical model that relates a set of variables (so called manifest variables ) to set of latent variables. It is assumed that 1) the responses on the indicators or manifest variables are the result of an individual …   Wikipedia

• Intervenierende Variable — ist ein Begriff, der ursprünglich von Edward Tolman in die Methodenlehre der empirischen Psychologie eingeführt wurde.[1] Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Psychologie 2 Mathematik 3 Siehe auch …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Moderator variable — A moderator variable is, in general terms, a qualitative (e.g., sex, race, class) or quantitative (e.g., level of reward) variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between dependent and independent variables.… …   Wikipedia

• Intervening variable — An intervening variable is a hypothetical internal state that is used to explain relationships between observed variables, such as independent and dependent variables, in empirical research. History The term “intervening variable” was first used… …   Wikipedia

• intervening variable — in·ter·ven·ing variable .int ər .vē niŋ n a variable (as memory) whose effect occurs between the treatment in a psychological experiment (as the presentation of a stimulus) and the outcome (as a response), is difficult to anticipate or is… …   Medical dictionary

• Cognitive complexity — Psychology Cognitive psychology Perception …   Wikipedia

• Cognitive Complexity Theory — Cognitive complexity is a psychological characteristic or psychological variable that indicates how complex or simple is the frame and perceptual skill of a person. A person who measures high on cognitive complexity tends to perceive nuances and… …   Wikipedia

• Strain theory (sociology) — In criminology, the strain theory states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. Following on the work of Émile Durkheim, Strain Theories have been advanced by Merton (1938), Cohen (1955), Cloward and Ohlin… …   Wikipedia