What Is a Psychological Misconception? Moving toward an Empirical Answer

Autor/inn/en	Bensley, D. Alan; Lilienfeld, Scott O.
Titel	What Is a Psychological Misconception? Moving toward an Empirical Answer
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 42 (2015) 4, S.282-292 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1177/0098628315603059
Schlagwörter	Misconceptions; Psychological Patterns; Psychometrics; Attitude Measures; College Students; Psychology; Majors (Students); Nonmajors; Item Response Theory; Accuracy; Error Patterns; Scores; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; Metacognition; Psychological Testing; Questionnaires + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Missverständnis; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Collegestudent; Psychologie; Item-Response-Theorie; Fehlertyp; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Psychological test; psychological tests; Psychological examination; Psychologischer Test; Fragebogen
Abstract	Studies of psychological misconceptions have often used tests with methodological shortcomings, unknown psychometric properties, and ad hoc methods for identifying misconceptions, creating problems for estimating frequencies of specific misconceptions. To address these problems, we developed a new test, the Test of Psychological Knowledge and Misconceptions, administering it to a sample of 162 graduate and undergraduate psychology students and to a second sample of 173 undergraduate psychology majors. Results revealed high consistency in item response frequencies across samples, allowing identification of specific misconceptions. We found that certainty ratings of the correctness of more frequently endorsed misconceptions were significantly higher than misconceptions endorsed less frequently while some other items endorsed much less frequently also showed higher certainty. Our findings bear implications for dispelling erroneous but confidently held claims in psychology courses. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01