Chapter 1
We live in a world with two realities.
What is experiential and agreement.
Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo designed a simulated prison to measure ____.
What is the situational hypothesis.
The two essentials of science are ____.
What is logic and observation.
A researcher who wants to know a measure is consistent or stable is interested in ____.
What is reliability.
Things we know from direct experience are a direct result of _____ reality.
What is experiential.
When it is not possible to match research data to the identities of participants, _____ has been achieved.
What is anonymity.
The scientific criteria for causality include ____.
What is a correlation between the cause and the effect
Ranks used to describe the hierarchy in a police department represent the ____ level of measurement.
What is ordinal.
Things we consider real because we’ve been told they are real reflect ____ reality.
What is agreement.
A promise of anonymity is unlikely to be possible when ____.
What is when personal interviews are conducted.
Suppose a researcher describes the age, race, and gender distributions for people who are charged with shoplifting. The unit of analysis is ____.
What is individuals.
The words or symbols in language used to illustrate subjective thoughts or mental images about things we may encounter in daily life are known as ____.
What is concepts.
What type of research involves measurement and interpretation?
What is empirical.
If a researcher is able to link information with a given person’s identity but promises not to do so publicly, the researcher is promising ____________________.
What is confidentiality.
A researcher is interested in how criminality is related to age and a large number of individuals of different ages at one point in time. This is a ____ study.
What is cross-sectional.
When a professor assigns grades, the professor is engaging in ____.
What is measurement.
By accepting what everybody knows, we rely on ____.
What is tradition.
The norm of voluntary participation is usually satisfied through ______________________.
What is informed consent.
Which pair refers to whether an explanation seeks to explain a particular event or a class of events?
What is idiographic and nomothetic.
The test-retest method is used to examine ____.
What is reliability.