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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Ability to identify an “average” vs a maximum (or minimum)?
I have a hypothesis that humans are better able to identify the largest (or smallest) in a set of objects, compared to their ability to identify an average object, i.e. the one closest to the mean.
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How are commercial psychometric instruments or content protected legally? [closed]
I understand the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is registered.
What are the limitations for individuals and other business wishing to utilise the MBTI without a license to do so.
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Validity of the “Common Factors” perspective
Research and practice in psychotherapy has been deeply influenced by two different approaches:
the Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs) movement, due to the development of Evidence Based Medicine (...
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Is synchronization between the MRI scanner and the stimulus presentation necessary for every trial?
I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated facial emotion expressions.
I've seen a lot of studies that synchronize the ...
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How to implement an incidental processing task without a fMRI-compatible response box?
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I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated facial emotion expressions. My supervisor and I are discussing ...
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Multiple-stratum intelligence models
My question concerns the mathematics of multiple-stratum models, about which I've not found much that's quantitative, so excuse my inventing my own notation to explain my thoughts.
In models such as ...
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How do different emotional intensity ratings within a condition influence the comparison across different conditions in an event-related fMRI task?
I'm planning an event-related fMRI-experiment to investigate the difference in processing natural and computer-generated expressions. For this, we recorded videos of 4 different actors posing fearful ...
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How to prevent falling for Jingle-Jangle fallacies?
What are some ways to avoid the Jingle-Jangle fallacies when it comes to choosing a form of measurement in psychology research?
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Are there dual-process IQ tests?
I mean tests that try to measure system 1 and system 2 performance separately, but more than short lists of trick questions which unfortunately seem to make the bulk of the empirical work in this dual-...
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What is the best unobtrusive and objective method to measure mental workload?
What is the current research/industry standard on measuring mental workload using objective measurements (e.g. EEG, eye-tracking)?
Do you have any suggestions for specific tools and techniques?
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Why do male brains not detect extra “F”
Is there a neuroscience explanation for the behavior in the following experiment? Are there any papers or research conducted to find out why this differentiation happens?
Count the number of ...
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Neurogensis in CNS invloves apoptosis of scar cells?
Say there's neurogensis in a brain area that seems to "allow" it, like the Hipocampus, Striatum, and so forth.
Does this neurogensis might be preceded in the apoptosis of scar cells, and then, in the ...
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Calculating brain-part volume percentage?
How is the approximate volume occupied by a brain component calculated?
For example, how would you know the approximate brain volume percentage of both hippocampi or both parts of the striatum, or ...
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How does on one create a circumplex model (multiple answers)?
Given a list of points with arousal and valence rankings, what is the best way of showing them on a circumplex model, given that they are already tagged with 1 out of 7 selected emotions, are they ...
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Accuracy and precision of wearable devices to measure galvanic skin response? [closed]
How accurate and precise are wearable devices to measure galvanic skin response compared to laboratory quality equipment? This discussion includes some details on the accuracy of wrist-based ...
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Name of false answer effect in surveys
I'm looking for research I've read about a well known effect that happens when participants complete a survey, where they do not answer what they think is right, but what they think the researchers ...
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Does sadism correlate with narcissism?
I mean in the general population. I'm aware of proposals/constructs like malignant narcissism but the empirical evidence (in the Wikipedia page at least) is mostly case-based (serial killers and so ...
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How do I stream SMI glasses eye tracker data into MATLAB?
We are planning to use the SMI glasses eye tracker. This eye tracker obtains gaze data and we will use it for pupillometry as a measure of cognitive load.
The only thing I'd like to accomplish is ...
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Advancement to Likert Scale
Likert Scale has been widely in use for more than 80 years (it was published in 1932). However, the limitations of it are well-known:
The space between each choice is possibly not equidistant.
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What, if any, objective tests were designed for the assessment of altruism?
In an article by Santacreu et al. (2006) there is a mention of altruism assessment within the framework of the Character Education Inquiry (CEI):
If we return to the first half of the last century, ...
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Is anyone aware of any cognitive models that appraises interior design preferences?
The goal is to evaluate someone's interior design preference based on some text/image based questions. Can the personality and aesthetic profile extracted from the answers be used as inputs for a ...
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Canonical Literature for “Big 5” Personality Theory
I'm searching for a good reference on "Big 5" personality theory that explains the topic in detail beyond the level of a website. I am hoping to get a pointer to some of the "canonical" literature--i....
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What happens at sampling rates lower or higher that the Nyquist rate?
I do understand that for a signal to be properly sampled, it has to be done on the Nyquist sampling rate. What I do not understand is, what happens at sampling rates lower rate than the Nyquist rate, ...
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Best sensor/wearable to measure ppg and/or gsr [duplicate]
So I'm doing a thesis and need to find the best sensor/wearable that has a open api so I can access the data, that measures gsr (galvanic skin response) and ppg (photoplethysmography).
I've seen a ...
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Is there an inventory to measure competence in the workplace?
I'm currently doing a study where I chose to have HR management practitioners view a sample of resumes from applicants, and then have them give a competence score. I'm just not sure what kind of ...
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How to understand what a low score or high score is for a particular measure?
I am trying to use a survey tool to recommend a particular decision. In my case, I am using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; link here: https://gosling.psy.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
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What is the cause of differences that are too small to see?
Consider two identical pieces of paper.
Scenario 1: On both something is drawn in black ink. If the difference between the areas covered in black ink is sufficiently small, I cannot see the ...
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Accuracy of psychopy keystroke duration measurement
I am using Psychopy and this code for measuring keystroke duration as suggested in this answer for my previous question:
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Is there a test that measures gender dysphoria?
Gender dysphoria according to wikipedia is
[T]he distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. In these cases, the assigned sex and gender do not ...
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Is a low Emotional Intelligence (EQ) pathological?
A sufficiently low cognitive intelligence is generally considered in society to be inherently pathological, or at least very nearly so. In fact, until recently, a diagnosis of Intellectual Disability (...
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In I.Q. and Cognitive Tests, What Sequence Patterns Should be Applied?
Nearly every I.Q. and Cognitive test seems to ask questions for the "next item in the sequence". But, there just seems to be so many possibilities, and I can usually find a way that all of the ...
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How do I measure ratio of EEG frequency band for a few electrodes in decibels?
I wanted to calculate the ratio of Theta/Beta ($\Theta$/$\beta$) in decibels for a couple of electrodes in AF3 AF4 and Cz
I was able to get these in microvolts, but would like to convert them to ...
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Which is the most valid/validated scale for diagnosis of Major depression for an Indian population?
I am planning a study of an online intervention for depression in India. We were planning to use Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for assessing the depression symptom severity. One of our ...
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Can brain zaps be demonstrated by EEG?
Brain zaps are explained as an electrical buzz in the head and the symptoms occur while withdrawing slowly from an SSRI antidepressant medication.
Is it possible to detect brain zaps by placing EEG ...
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Examples of interventions that yield large long term effect sizes in psychology
I was listening to a podcast entitled Very Bad Wizards, hosted by two university academics. One of the hosts, namely David Pizarro who is a psychologist at Cornell made the claim that most ...
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Ambiguity in self-evaluating Likert-scale questions
I am concerned that when Likert-scale type questions are used in self-evaluation questions, the results are ambiguous and would like to know if it's possible to address this ambiguity.
Interpersonal ...
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Which filter should be applied to the EEG signal for the stress stimulus? [closed]
I am a student in electrical and electronics engineering. I just started working with EEG. I perform a stress test on subjects and record EEG activities with a 5-sensor headset. I use Matlab for ...
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Correlation between “mechanical aptitude” and IQ
I am an economist working in labour market issues. It is common in my field to divide jobs between those who are intensive in "manual" tasks and those who are intensive in "cognitive" tasks (e.g. here)...
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Does the peripheral nervous system processes information like central neurons do?
Neural coding deals with the problem on how neurons or a network of neurons processes a stimulus and creates a response in form of electrical action potentials. Information then might be encoded in ...
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How to measure and quantify concentration or focus?
How can we measure and quantify concentration or focus? For example, if I were to say:
"If you do Activity X while using Y, you will be more concentrated
than if you were using Z"
How can I ...
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Inter-subject signal sensitivity estimation?
Factor loading background
I am using paired comparison methods to estimate estimate respondents’ sensitivity to distinctions in words used to characterize the construct of agreeableness. (e.g, ...
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Are there any tests for one's belief or philosophy?
I know of the varying types of personality tests and I find them interesting (specifically HEXACO due to it having multiple facets to expand its 6 main factors and I believe it is open-source or free ...
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Understanding a negative correlation between Pc and signal strength
When I present two signals in paired comparison and ask the respondent to select the stronger signal in the pair, I find that it is the signal strength of the second signal that more so determines ...
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What does it mean for there to be more variance within groups than between groups in IQ?
I was watching a short YouTube video that comments on the validity of IQ. That video contains the following claim (verbatim):
"You know nothing about a person's intelligence on the basis of his or ...
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Freeware for measuring keystroke duration
I am searching for freeware to measure the duration of a keystroke or mouse-click, both would work. Does anyone have an idea?
Matlab toolboxes are, unfortunately, of no use to me.
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Is there anything comparable to the IPIP for IO psychology, work psychology and the like?
The International Personality Item Pool is a public domain collection of over 3000 items and 250 scales.
Is there anything comparable for work psychology and the like?
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Where should I place a reference electrode?
This site gives basics of how to place electrodes for action potential recording. What I understand is that in order to get better signal, the reference electrode must be placed where there is minimum ...
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identifying scale of measurement for the dependent variable [closed]
I am doing a research study on short-term memory. My research study will be whether gender has an impact on short term memory for college students. I need help identifying the scale of measurement for ...
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Is there a standardised questionnaire measuring tendency to think emotionally versus logically?
I want to conduct a research on the effect of emotions on decision. It is about the role of affective and cognitive processes in making a decision. I want to know if an individual relies more on ...
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At what time in a psychophysical test are catch trials preferably presented?
I am designing a tone-in-noise detection task (specifically a high frequency N0Spi task). For various reasons I need to use a yes-no paradigm and the method of constant stimuli. I am severely limited ...
