Questions tagged [measurement]
For questions about techniques for measuring psychological and neural properties. Includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits, as well as neural structure, organization, activity, and complexity.
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Psychological issues database
I'm aware of DSM and ICD databases as good and well-organized sources of information about clinical mental diagnoses.
But is there any psychological issues database?
(When saying "psychological ...
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What is the best method for identifying single participants in EMA studies?
I am currently working on an ecological momentary assessment research project. I can't seem to find a clear answer in literature review to this question.
My problem is when observations reach to ...
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Non-binary scores for backward digit span (BDS)
A common test of memory span is to display or utter a sequence of numbers and then request that a candidate being assessed repeat that sequence of numbers in reverse order. Typically, the candidate's ...
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How does cognitive load and learning effect compare in carousel vs. matrix views of a likert study?
I am looking for any papers or analysis on the use of a carousel vs. a matrix layout for a likert-style study. I have the broad impression a carousel is used for images or certain studies where each ...
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Is Cronbach's alpha used outside of psychology?
Tau-equivalent reliability ($\rho$$T$), also known as Cronbach's alpha is a widely used measure of reliability in psychological testing. I've not encountered Cronbach's alpha in other sectors. Does ...
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If a person with Parkinson's disease is young at 20 years of age [closed]
If a person with Parkinson's disease is young at 20 years of age, what should he do to get rid of it and what are its causes?
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Best tests or questionnaires to measure person's ability to love
What are the best methods (questionnaires/tests/etc) to measure ability to love?
So far I see those
Light Triad Test (described in Scientific American)
Big Five personality traits (OCEAN model) - ...
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R. Beech's Frustration tolerance questionnaire - anyone knows it?
This questionnaire should be for assessing frustration tolerance, author should be " an Americam psychologist R. Beech".
My 13 y/o daughter´s civics teacher gave to all pupils in her class ...
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How are IQ test scores affected by psychological stress or trauma?
Does mental stress or trauma have a significant impact on IQ test performance relative to baseline, and if so, how much?
For example, if a person is affected by abuse, bullying, neglect, or some other ...
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Neuroscience & Epistemology - Feedback in Hermeneutic circle of Theory and Experiment
How good is neuroscience at closing this Hermeneutic circle in the Philosophy of science?
I am referring to the interplay of theory and experiment.
This is depicted in the following figure:
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How to measure confidence in non-binary (e.g. ordinal) choice tasks?
In metacognition literature, why is confidence, regardless of scale (Likert-type or continuous) and definition (e.g. decision confidence as a subjective probability of a decision being correct), ...
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Shifting attention when we respond following a question
I have had people who ask for something and when I start to answer they shift their attention towards something else. I want to understand the common psychological motivation behind this kind of act.
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Measuring postsynaptic potential vs action potential at axon hillock?
I have been reading literature regarding Neuronal potential measurement. Conventionally, researchers use electrode-based method to measure action potential. However, as it's of high invasiveness and ...
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Why do we use relative signals and not absolute signals with EEG?
Most EEG machines use a system based upon differential amplifiers to enhance the signal, a basic differential amplifier has 2 inputs and one output. the device takes 2 signals and outputs the ...
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Update list of the most used and reliable quantitative tests in Psychology
I studied Psychology some years ago, and well, I ended up as a programmer. Now, I'm working on a personal side project to build an API to serve correction for different psychology tests.
Since I moved ...
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Evidence for differences in resilience between generations
There is a lot of talk of younger generations being "softer" but is there any evidence for differences in resilience or hardiness between generations?
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Why are most psychological studies not controlling for IQ and personality scores of their respondents?
Consider for exemple the stereotype threat, of which a recent meta-analysis can be found here. People try to assess how can a stereotype might explain a difference between two groups.
However, they ...
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What are the benefits or pitfalls of including an aggregate score (sum or average) for 3 measures of well-being?
I am asking this question to assist with my work in the setting described below, and am working on the below mentioned spreadsheet as I write this. I thought this could be an interesting question to ...
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Retest-Reliability of index “Working Memory” in Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)
I am desperately researching the retest-reliability of the index "working memory" in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV). Unfortunately, I don't have the original manual at hand ...
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How many participants are needed for online reaction time studies?
I am a Master's student focusing on psycholinguistics and I am preparing for my thesis. What I will be looking at are register effects and for that I will be conducting 2 online experiments using Ibex ...
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What is the “quotient” determining a person's ability of seeing the big, long term picture?
A person with high IQ might be good at solving puzzles with determined rules, but are not necessarily able to deal with complicated real world problems with limited knowledge, limited resources, and ...
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IQ Heritability: from father vs mother?
I think on Wiki here it is suggested that IQ is inherited to some degree.
But I can't find scientific information on whether it is more inherited from mother or father?
e.g. if both mother and father ...
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Emotional Calculator; How can I mathematically show a decrease in anxiety using an emotional equation?
Disclaimer- I had asked this question in the Math stack exchange, but was encouraged to ask it here.
I'm working on creating an emotional calculator of sorts, for personal use, wherein, whenever I am ...
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Why have we not yet mastered our understanding of the Placebo effect? [closed]
The Placebo effect states that if you and I are both surgeons and we have 10 alike patients each who are in need of knee surgery's, that if you go and do your operations by the book, and I on the ...
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How to obtain percent correct responses from the QUEST data
I'm new to analyzing QUEST data to produce psychometric functions. I am using Psignifit in Matlab for this.
I have this data:
Column #1 has stimulus contrast presented in the first or the second ...
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Does Human Brain signal of same task in different time have the same characteristics?
I am currently doing some research about human emotion based on EEG classification.
I do an experiment in that I show subject a picture about 3 state of emotion and record their EEG signal.
I split my ...
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How is the weight of Weschler subscales calculated towards general IQ?
How do the Wechsler IQ (e.g. WAIS III) tests indices (e.g. verbal IQ, performance IQ) and sub-scales contribute to overall IQ? What are the weights of each? If a person scores above 99.9th (maximum) ...
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How can we measure the levels of Frustration? [closed]
Any technique or Matrix or Questionnaires, Qualitative or Quantitative Analysis
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How to add fixation cross on grey screen using psychopy? [closed]
I want to insert the placeholders "welcome text", "instruction text", "fixation cross" and "thank you text" on the grey screen. The black fixation cross appears in the middle of the screen for a ...
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Calculating Significantly Above Chance for 3-AFC Test
I am trying to figure out which participants who took a 18-item multiple choice test scored significantly above chance. Each item has 3 choices, so the probability of getting each question correct is ...
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Offical studies/papers of relationship evaluation in mobile apps
There is this heise article https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Die-Psycho-Tricks-der-App-Entwickler-4547123.html (unfortunatley in German) talking about manipulative mechanisms in mobile apps. He is ...
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Equalize/balance brightness and saturation of different colors using RGB (across various monitors)
We want to present different colors to participants in an online experiment (in an HTML/CSS-based application, hence we'll use RGB values). More in specific, we ...
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What psychological methods exist for dealing with uncertainty?
Curious in finding out if there have been any psychological studies done on uncertainty & what the results of those studies have been.
Have there been any frameworks or methodologies on combating ...
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Has the Open-Source Psychometrics Project been well received by the community?
I am not a psychologist/psychology student, but I've just recently discovered the Open-Source Psychometrics Project, and I think it's great.
To my untrained eyes, it seems like they have solid ...
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Why does an image seem smaller through a pinhole when viewing with human eye
I was chewing gum when I took the Trident gum wrapper and rolled it into an open cylinder with a diameter of about 1.5mm (give or take 0.15mm). When I look through the gum wrapper (I have to put it ...
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Whole brain death diagnosis and false positive
In view of the increasing need for organ transplants( possibly because of the greater ability of the surgeons and physicians to both execute the transplant, prevent a rejection, and/or diagnose the ...
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Is AFQT geared towards estimating crystallized intelligence?
In a few papers I have read claims that AFQT is geared largely (mostly?) towards measuring crystallized intelligence.
However, https://study.com/academy/popular/difference-between-the-asvab-afqt....
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Finding percentile ranks for questionnaires and psychometric tests
I am using a Levenson's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale to divide participants into two groups (high v low scores). I have selected participants based on them scoring in the top or bottom 25% of ...
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Is there a subfield of psychometrics focused not on test questions but “high-resolution” “behavioral” data?
I'm new here but I thought y'all would be the best place to ask.
Is there some research sub-community that studies how to measure psychological constructs and processes when you have high-resolution ...
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How do I get the “Avoidance and Inflexibility Scale”?
I am working with a smoking cessation app and I want to study the acceptance of smoking behaviour. I found a good paper by Gifford et al. (2004) in which the authors use their own questionnaire called ...
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Can some one operate 15 points lower during some part of the day and then return to normal?
Few days back I took an IQ test (online mensa norway) and found my IQ score to be 85. I actually had my IQ professionally tested 16 months ago by a psychologist when I was 18, and found out that I am ...
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Correlation used as explanatory device in ''The neuroscience of Intelligence'
I am currently reading Dr. Richard Haier's book The Neuroscience of Intelligence. I have a base knowledge of statistics, but I am confused about the following extract from page 80 (chapter 2.4):
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Testing Prefrontal cortex
Is there a test to see if the Prefrontal cortex of someone works normally? especially a simple test like a questionnaire that you give the individuals to fill out and based on their answer you obtain ...
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Are there scales to measure parental autonomy support from the parents' perspective? (Self-determination theory)
Self-determination theory posits that parental autonomy support (PAS) has myriad benefits for children. All the studies I have been able to find either rate PAS based on observing parents interact ...
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How to measure/predict the difficulty of a conflict?
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I want to conduct an experiment and I found that the difficulty of a conflict to resolve could play a factor in this experiment.
I now need an easy way of measuring the potential difficulty ...
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Schwartz Value Survey (SVS)
I am looking for the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS; Schwartz, 1992). I seem to have found a copy here in the appendix of this paper but I'm not quite sure if it is okay to use it the way it is presented, ...
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is it possible to be severely autistic yet not being “visibly autistic”?
It is common problem for many "mild" (ASD level-1) autistics to be criticized as "you do not look autistic" or some of its variants. Also sometimes seen in social media that moderate autistics (level-...
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How the percentage of disability is measured in India in case of autism, ADHD, learning disability etc?
How the "percentage" of disability is measured in India in case of cognitive difficulties such as autism, ADHD, learning disability, intellectual disability etc?
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Can General Assessment of Functioning (GAF) be used to measure recovery etc. from all mental health problems?
Can General Assessment of Functioning (GAF) be used to measure recovery etc. from all mental health problems?
I know it's used with 'schizophrenia', but what about things like personality disorders, ...
