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Variables
Sampling
Measurement
Ethics
Grab-bag
100
Alcohol leads to violence. What is the independent variable?
Alcohol
100
The type of sampling where you stay on a street corner and survey every person you encounter
Availability sampling
100
The level of measurement where numbers indicate the variable's values but there is no zero point.
Interval
100
What does IRB stand for?
Institutional Review Board
100
Survey respondents who see themselves as being neutral on every issue
Fence-sitters
200
The variable that doesn't change throughout the experiment
Constant
200
The type of sampling where you ask people you survey where you can find more people with similar characteristics.
Snowball sampling
200
What are the four levels of measurement for variables?
Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
200
Name any one study that led to the need for an ethical reform
Stanford Prison Milgram Tuskegee
200
UCR measures two categories of crimes. What are they?
Violent and property
300
The group that does not get experimental treatment
Control group
300
The type of sampling where you randomly select groups and then further randomly select individuals from those groups.
Multistage cluster
300
Determines whether we are measuring what we want to measure
Validity
300
The process of informing subjects about the experiment's purposes and methods after the experiment is over.
Debriefing
300
What is the dark figure of crime?
Unreported crimes
400
A kind of study that follows a group of people for a set period of time with regular follow-ups
Panel Cohort Longitudinal
400
The list of your population from which you select your sample
Sampling frame
400
Type of reliability that is determined by giving the same test to same people after a specified time period to see whether the results are consistent
Test-retest
400
The mandatory document that every participant has to be presented with prior to participating in an experiment
Informed consent
400
A question that asks two questions within one
A double-barreled question
500
The hypothesis that states that there is no relationship between variables
Null hypothesis
500
Name all four types of probability sampling (do not respond unless you can name all four)
Simple, systematic, stratified, multistage cluster
500
The process of specifying the variable and how it will be measured.
Operationalization
500
One of the main ethical concerns in conducting experiments and the reason all data should be coded or kept locked up
Confidentiality and anonymity
500
Extrapolating the sample data to a population different than the one the sample was drawn from
Cross-population generalization