Selecting a subset of elements from the larger population
What is a sample?
The aggregated collection of elements of a complete collective is known as a ______.
What is a population?
Becoming invested in, or enamored with, an individual or group is referred to as ______.
What is "going native"?
_____ is the best way to ensure that a researcher gathers useful respondent data.
What is Pre-testing?
_____ is when surveys ask respondents to provide more information than is necessary, which increases the time and energy respondents need to complete a survey.
What is respondent burden?
The difference between sample statistics and population parameters.
What is sampling error?
A comprehensive list that includes all elements of the population is referred to as a ______.
What is a sampling frame?
A researcher hiding their identity and observing subjects while participating in the subjects’ setting is known as ______.
complete participant
A written, printed, or electronic survey instruments respondents fill out themselves.
What is a questionnaire?
To create understandable survey questions, use language at the level of someone in the ______ grade.
What is eighth grade?
The two major types of sampling
What are probability and non-probability sampling?
Dr. Jones is interested in learning whether bystander intervention programs affect fraternity attitudes toward stopping violence. The unit of analysis is ________.
What are groups/organizations?
What refers to the effect that occurs when people react by hiding or exaggerating behaviors when they are aware that they are being observed?
Questions that ask about more than one topic per question, making it unclear which question is being answered, are called ______.
What are double-barreled questions?
Participants who provide inaccurate or incomplete survey responses because they cannot recall past information or events are creating ______.
What is recall bias?
Being able to use the findings from samples to make statements about the general population is called ______.
What is generalizability?
A researcher demonstrating an ecological fallacy is applying conclusions about a group or organization to ______.
What is an individual?
The process of ordering and arranging data into categories based on manageable themes and concepts is called ______.
What is coding?
The proportion of surveys returned relative to the total number of surveys fielded is
What is a response rate?
Which role conception describes a researcher hiding their identity and observing subjects while participating in the subjects’ setting?
What is complete participant?
Dr. Wright is interested in asking students about their perceptions of the police. He designs a survey and distributes it to students at his university where he collects his data. What type of sample is this?
What is convenience sampling?
When each element in the population has a known, and equal probability of being selected into a sample, this type of probability sampling is called ______.
What is simple random sampling?
The systematic gathering of qualitative data that offers a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the culture, environment, and social traits of individuals or individuals in a group is called ______.
What is ethnography?
Name the four ways a survey can be distributed.
What are mail/written, telephone, online & mobile, and in-person/face-to-face?
When the researcher becomes a group member unbeknownst to the group, but known to the researcher’s primary contacts, this role conception is called ______.
What is participant as observer?