Operationalization is to "operational definition" as conceptualization is to _____________
Nominal definition
100
What is one dimension of "life satisfaction"?
Emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational
100
If measuring gender, race, or college major, you would probably use a _______ form of measurement
nominal
100
If a survey question just "seems" to measure what it is supposed to, it is said to have _______
face validity
200
Concept is to variable what proposition is to ________
hypothesis
200
If one dimension of your "fuzzy object" is "economic," then "income" is one _______ of that dimension
indicator
200
If your variable has attributes you can rank or "order" in some way, you will probably use what kind of measurement?
ordinal
200
Let's say we come up with indicators to measure student GPA at a university, and then we compare the answers to official university records. If the results from our survey match the official records, our questions can be said to have __________
Criterion validity
300
If my sample is 400 employees, then my element is ________ .
one employee
300
If send out one survey to measure political values among UCSB students, this is not a longitudinal study, it is a _______ study.
cross-sectional
300
If surveying GPA, you would most likely use what kind of measurement?
interval
300
I conduct a survey of attitudes about the Keystone XL pipeline and find that the vast majority of respondents oppose it. The next day I do another survey among the same group and find that most people support it. My survey probably does not have _________
Test-retest reliability
400
If I make conclusions about individuals from the observations of groups, I risk falling into the __________
ecological fallacy
400
a ________ study collects data at different points in time
longitudinal
400
The Likert scale is what kind of measurement?
Ordinal
400
If one indicator perfectly measures another, the Cronbach's alpha correlation coefficient is ________
1.0
500
What is the difference between an index and a scale?
Index: indicators "cause" the concept
Scale: indicators are "effects" of concept
Examples?
500
There is a series of documentaries called the "Up" series that interviews the same group of people every seven years. This can be called a ______ study
panel
500
If we measure temperature in Fahrenheit using an "interval" survey question, how would we measure temperature in the Kelvin scale (which has an "absolute zero")?
Ratio
500
I conduct a survey of my employees and find that the ones who dislike me as a boss tend to be unhappy with the kind of work they are assigned and unhappy with their salary. As indicators of their general satisfaction with their jobs, each one of these indicators can perhaps be said to have ______