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LSRC reference Appendix 3<br />
page 172/173<br />
metaphysical<br />
dealing with highly abstract ideas about being and<br />
knowing which are not derived from the material world<br />
neuroticism<br />
state of, or tendency towards, nervous disorder<br />
orthogonal<br />
at right angles; meaning, in factor analysis,<br />
independent or uncorrelated<br />
parameter<br />
a factor that defines a system and determines<br />
(or limits) its performance<br />
paratelic<br />
activity-oriented and intrinsically motivated<br />
(in Apter’s reversal theory)<br />
Pearson r<br />
a measure of correlation, indicating the extent<br />
to which two measures co-vary (with 1.00 indicating<br />
a perfect correlation)<br />
pedagogy<br />
theoretical and procedural knowledge about teaching<br />
percentile<br />
a point on a scale below which a given percentage<br />
of a population will score<br />
perception<br />
interpreting and understanding information received<br />
through the senses<br />
phenomenology<br />
the study of human experience, based on<br />
the assumption that there is no reality other<br />
than human consciousness<br />
predictive validity<br />
the extent to which a set of scores predicts an expected<br />
outcome or criterion<br />
prosocial<br />
acting in support of others or to meet their expectations<br />
of good behaviour<br />
psychometric<br />
concerned with psychological measurement<br />
psychoticism<br />
a tendency towards a state of mind in which contact<br />
with reality is lost or is highly distorted<br />
quadrature<br />
construction of a square with the same area as that<br />
of another figure<br />
reliability<br />
the coherence (internal consistency) of a set<br />
of test items, or the stability (test–retest) of a set<br />
of test scores over time<br />
self-regulation<br />
the process of setting goals for oneself and then<br />
monitoring and evaluating progress<br />
serialist<br />
step-by-step: sequential (in Pask’s theory)<br />
sharpening<br />
tending to separate new perceptions and respond<br />
accurately to complexity (in Holzman and Klein’s theory)<br />
split-brain research<br />
studies of psychological function in patients who have<br />
had the largest bundle of fibres linking the two halves<br />
of the brain severed, in order to control or limit the<br />
effects of epileptic seizures<br />
summative assessment<br />
evaluation of performance carried out at the end<br />
of a piece of work<br />
tactile<br />
perceiving through the sense of touch<br />
taxonomy<br />
a principled classification of the elements of a domain<br />
telic<br />
goal-oriented and externally motivated<br />
(in Apter’s reversal theory)<br />
test–retest reliability<br />
the stability of test scores as indicated by retesting the<br />
same group and calculating a correlation coefficient<br />
using the two sets of scores<br />
trait<br />
a stable personal quality, inherited or acquired<br />
validity<br />
the quality of being well grounded in reality<br />
variance<br />
variability of scores in relation to their average (mean)<br />
value in relation