scholarly journals Attentional Competition: Weapon Focus, Encoding Time, and Memory Accuracy Correlations between Crime Scene Items

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyram Kekessie
Keyword(s):  
Crime Scene ◽  
Memory Accuracy ◽  
Weapon Focus

Test Validation Without Measurement

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Lacot ◽  
Mohammad H. Afzali ◽  
Stéphane Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Test Data ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Test Validation ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Power Of Test ◽  
Memory Accuracy ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Special Case

Abstract. Test validation based on usual statistical analyses is paradoxical, as, from a falsificationist perspective, they do not test that test data are ordinal measurements, and, from the ethical perspective, they do not justify the use of test scores. This paper (i) proposes some basic definitions, where measurement is a special case of scientific explanation; starting from the examples of memory accuracy and suicidality as scored by two widely used clinical tests/questionnaires. Moreover, it shows (ii) how to elicit the logic of the observable test events underlying the test scores, and (iii) how the measurability of the target theoretical quantities – memory accuracy and suicidality – can and should be tested at the respondent scale as opposed to the scale of aggregates of respondents. (iv) Criterion-related validity is revisited to stress that invoking the explanative power of test data should draw attention on counterexamples instead of statistical summarization. (v) Finally, it is argued that the justification of the use of test scores in specific settings should be part of the test validation task, because, as tests specialists, psychologists are responsible for proposing their tests for social uses.

A Distinctiveness-Driven Reversal of the Weapon-Focus Effect

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt A. Carlson ◽  
Maria A. Carlson ◽  
Natalie Saladino ◽  
Dawn R. Weatherford
Keyword(s):  
Weapon Focus ◽  
Focus Effect ◽  
Weapon Focus Effect

Can Eyewitnesses Strategically Regulate Memory Accuracy After Being Misinformed?

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Higham ◽  
Jessica Bloomfield ◽  
Karlos Luna
Keyword(s):  
Memory Accuracy

Novelty and Threat in the Weapon Focus Effect: A Study with Structural Equation Modelling

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Blake Erickson ◽  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
Juliana Leding ◽  
Christopher S. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Weapon Focus ◽  
Focus Effect ◽  
Weapon Focus Effect

List Structure Influences Other Factors' Effects on Recovered Memory Accuracy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Sorgi ◽  
Craig E. Hunt ◽  
Katherine Lee ◽  
Sara C. Jakl ◽  
David R. Gerkens
Keyword(s):  
Recovered Memory ◽  
List Structure ◽  
Memory Accuracy
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