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| The response set of tending to say yes (agree) in response to any question. |
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| The measuring of personality. |
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| The accuracy with which a measure reflects the underlying concept. |
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| The degree to which a measure relates to other characteristics that are conceptually similar to what it's supposed to assess. |
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| The developing of a test by seeing which items distinguish between groups. |
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| The degree to which the measure correlates with a separate criterion reflecting the same concept. |
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| The degree to which a scale does NOT measure unintended qualities. |
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empirical approach
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| The use of data instead of theory to decide what should go into the measure. |
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| Random influences that are incorporated in measurements. |
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| The scale seeming on its face to measure what it's supposed to measure. |
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internal reliability
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| Agreement among responses made to the items of a measure. |
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| The degree of agreement between observers of the same events. |
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| A personality test measuring several aspects of personality on distinct subscales. |
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| A measure that incorporates no interpretation. |
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| An assessment in which someone else produces information about the person being assessed. |
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| The defining of a concept by the concrete events through which it is measured (or manipulated). |
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| The degree to which the measure predicts other variables it should predict. |
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rational (theoretical) approach
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| The use of a theory to decide what you want to measure and then deciding how to measure it. |
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| Consistency across repeated measurements. |
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| A biased orientation to answering. |
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| An assessment in which people make ratings pertaining to themselves. |
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| The response set of tending to portray oneself favorably. |
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| Assessing internal consistency among responses to items of a measure by splitting the items into halves and then correlating them. |
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| A measure incorporating personal interpretation. |
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| The stability of measurements across time. |
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| A measure's "truthfulness," or the degree to which it actually measures what it is intended to measure. |
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