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The principle that people must be both willing and able to provide truthful and accurate answers.
What is THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE SELF-REPORT METHOD?
100
The process of choosing members of a population to be included in a sample.
What is SAMPLING?
100
Questions that lead people to respond in a certain way.
What are LOADED QUESTIONS?
100

The individuals or clusters of individuals in a population who might actually be selected for inclusion in the sample.

What is a Sampling Frame?

100
A sampling technique in which the population is divided into strata followed by random sampling from each stratum.
What is STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING?
200
A pattern of individual responses to questions on a self-report measure that is not related to the content of the questions.
What is a RESPONSE SET?
200
The defined group of individuals from which a sample is drawn.
What is a POPULATION?
200
Questions that offer a limited number of response alternatives.
What are CLOSED-ENDED QUESTIONS?
200
The % of people selected for a sample who actually completed a survey.
What is the RESPONSE RATE?
200
A method of sampling in which clusters of individuals are identified. Clusters are sampled, and then all individuals in each cluster are included in the sample.
What is CLUSTER SAMPLING?
300
Questions that focus on the ways that people evaluate and think about issues.
What are QUESTIONS ABOUT ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS?
300
An interval of values within which there is a given level of confidence where the population value lies.
What is a CONFIDENCE INTERVAL?
300
A type of measurement scale on which respondents rate any concept - persons, objects, behaviors, ideas - on a series of bipolar adjectives using 7-point scales.
What is a SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE?
300
Establishing good rapport, ensuring confidentiality and anonymity, asking people to rate how honest they have been, etc.
What are TECHNIQUES TO COUNTERACT THE EFFECT OF A RESPONSE SET?
300
Selecting subjects in a haphazard manner, usually on the basis of availability, and not with regard to have a representative sample of the population; a type of nonprobability sampling.
What is HAPHAZARD SAMPLING?
400
Questions that ask people to indicate the things they know about themselves and their situation.
What are FACTUAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS?
400
The type of sampling procedure in which one cannot specify the probability that any member of the population will be included in the sample
What is NONPROBABILITY SAMPLING?
400

Intentional or unintentional influence exerted by a survey in such a way that the actual or interpreted behavior of respondents is consistent with the survey creator's expectations.

What is Survey Bias?

400
Intentionally lying on a survey.
What is CONSCIOUS DECEPTION?
400
A type of haphazard sample conducted to obtain predetermined types of individuals for the sample.
What is A PURPOSIVE SAMPLE?
500
Questions that ask two things at once
What are DOUBLE-BARRELED QUESTIONS?
500
A sampling procedure in which each member of the population has a equal probability of being included in the sample.
What is SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING?
500
In survey research, questioning the same people at two or more points in time.
What is a PANEL STUDY?
500
They don't lead, they are exploratory, the participant can answer in their own words, they increase rapport and openness, and they generate a lot of information.
What are the ADVANTAGES OF OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS?
500
A sampling procedure in which the sample is chosen to reflect the numerical composition of various subgroups in the population. A haphazard sampling technique is used to obtain the sample.
What is QUOTA SAMPLING?