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Sociometric explorations reveal the hidden structures that give a group its form: the alliances, the subgroups, the hidden beliefs, the forbidden agendas, the ideological agreements, the "stars" of the show. [2]" Moreno developed sociometry as one of the newly developing social sciences.
Sociometric status is a measurement that reflects the degree to which someone is liked or disliked by their peers as a group. While there are some studies that have looked at sociometric status among adults, the measure is primarily used with children and adolescents to make inferences about peer relations and social competence .
A sociogram is constructed after students answer a series of questions probing for affiliations with other classmates. The diagram can then be used to identify pathways for social acceptance for misbehaving students. In this context, the resulting sociograms are known as a friendship chart.
Adolescent cliques are cliques that develop amongst adolescents.In the social sciences, the word "clique" is used to describe a large group of 6 to 12 "who interact with each other more regularly and intensely than others in the same setting". [1]
Sociometer theory is a theory of self-esteem from an evolutionary psychological perspective which proposes that self-esteem is a gauge (or sociometer) of interpersonal relationships.
The set of images in the MNIST database was created in 1994. Previously, NIST released two datasets: Special Database 1 (NIST Test Data I, or SD-1); and Special Database 3 (or SD-2). They were released on two CD-ROMs. SD-1 was the test set, and it contained digits written by high school students, 58,646 images written by 500 different writers.
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC) is a clinical instrument (psychological diagnostic test) for assessing cognitive development. Its construction incorporates several recent developments in both psychological theory and statistical methodology. The test was developed by Alan S. Kaufman and Nadeen L. Kaufman in
[6] [3] [4] Robert Park tasked his student, Emory Bogardus, to create a quantifiable measure of social distance. [5] Bogardus' creation of the first Social Distance Scale played a large role in popularizing Park's and Bogardus conceptualization of social distance, which had some significant differences from Simmel's original ideas.