Chapter 5
This is a quality of measurement methods that suggests that the same data would have been collected each time in repeated observations of the same phenomenon.
What is reliability?
As sample size decreases, the standard error does this.
What is it increases?
This is an experimental design in which neither the subject nor the experimenters know which is the experimental group and which is the control.
What is a double-blind experiment?
These are a type of question where researchers ask respondents for a single answer to a question with multiple parts – about each of which the respondent may feel differently.
What are double-barreled questions?
This is some consensus, or convention, about how a particular term is to be used. A definition assigned to a term without any claim of being “real.”
What is nominal/a nominal definition?
This is a summary description of a given variable in a population.
What is a parameter?
This occurs when feelings of deprivation within the control group may result in some giving up.
What is demoralization?
This kind of question needs to be coded before analysis.
What is an open-ended question?
This is the refinement and specification of abstract concepts.
What is conceptualization?
This kind of sampling is the most at risk of sampling bias.
What is snowball sampling?
This is the possibility that conclusions drawn from experimental results may not be generalizable to the “real” world.
What is external validity?
These are the two requirements of closed-ended questions.
What are exhaustiveness and mutual exclusivity?
This is the development of specific research procedures that will result in empirical observations representing those concepts in the real world.
What is operationalization?
This is the aggregation of elements from which the sample is actually selected.
What is the study population?
This is the possibility that the conclusions drawn from experimental results may not accurately reflect what went on in the experiment itself.
What is internal validity?
These questions are designed to enable the researcher to ask several questions that have the same set of answer categories.
What are matrix questions?
This is the degree to which a measure covers the range of meanings included within a concept.
What is content validity
This is the standard distance between elements selected from a population in the sample.
What is a sampling interval?
This is a study in which a single group of subjects is measured on a dependent variable following the administration of some experimental stimulus.
These are the four main survey methods.
What are self-administered questionnaires, interview surveys, telephone surveys, and online surveys?