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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

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