Questions tagged [test]
Questions pertaining to the evaluation of performance through formal or informal means, as well as the scoring of such evaluations.
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3x2 Mixed ANOVA, but 3 DVs, one of which is a yes/no - what statistical test?
I have a research design where I have a 3x2 mixed ANOVA, focussing on attitudes towards a drug. The between participants part has 3 levels, with 2 different methods of communicating about risks of ...
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Are there easy ways to measure own cognitive fitness daily? [closed]
I noticed I have been having quite intense ups and downs in my ability to stay focused and to solve various brain-involving tasks. It seems like these fluctuations have some time-of-day cycle (I hope ...
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What differences are between testable theories and falsifiable hypotheses?
Psychology: the Core Concepts says
Psychology differs from the pseudosciences in that it employs
the scientific method to test its ideas empirically. The scientific
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Which statistical analysis test to perform to find the difference in connectivity between regions of Default Mode Network?
I have three groups each with 30 participants. I have 30 binary adjacency/connectivity matrix for each group which represents the connectivity between regions of Default Mode Network . I want to find ...
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Recomendations for an intelligence test
Is there any culture-fair intelligence test, that is not of public knowledge (that is, the answers can be easily viewed online, or has been used extensively to the point it lacks validity), that doesn'...
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Validity of CliftonStrengths
Trying to find information about the validity of CliftonStrengths.
For a commercial, restricted test (which perhaps is not classified as test by the owner) it can be hard to find independent ...
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How should one interpret the codes for this Rorschach test? [closed]
In the short story "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keys, the main character performs a Rorschach test and sees the evaluator code his results as follows:
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Is there a standardised test for focus?
Not affiliated with psychology in any way, so my knowledge is essentially zero.
I am looking for a way to measure change in my ability to focus during a fast. This is simply for a personal experiment.
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Are unannounced tests unexpected by participants?
I was looking into whether unannounced (memory) tests were actually unexpected by participants, and if the benefits accredited to unannounced tests are well-founded. Considering that students are ...
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Choosing Standardized Reading Comprehension Tests to Generalize Results on Active Reading Techniques
We have been designing a series of experiments on comparing different active reading techniques for college students. In most of the studies we found in the literature, the passages are arbitrarily ...
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Randomized pair assignment for testing
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Take a group of students. During the school/academic year, they will be assigned several tests (ideally one less than the number of students). Usually, students are tested and graded ...
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Alternative metrics to assess test validity/reliability
I have two versions of calculating a score for a test (which assesses how well they perform a task). One takes into account the difficulty of the items, the other does not. These tests are ...
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Types of Research for comparing two Groups [closed]
i am planning to do an empirical research for my Thesis, which is about the influence of exercise on the psychological and subjective well-being of individuals (60-90 years of age).
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What is verbal memory useful for?
A friend of mine did the Verbal Memory Test at http://humanbenchmark.com/ and got an extremely high score (almost 300 words). English is not his first language and he knew the meaning of only about ...
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About the growing path of every mechanism on the psychology defense system
About the growing path of every mechanism on the psychology defense systemI Have seen the below video which is about the Freud’s 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development:
Also i have seen the psychology ...
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