CPS503 Quiz 2 TAKE HOME ASSESSMENT Question # 00603241 Subject: Education Due on: 07/18/2019 Posted On: 07/18/2019 05:16 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.8/5

QUIZ 2 TAKE HOME
ASSESSMENT SUM 2019

1. The number of people who complete a survey in relation to
the number of people contacted to participate is called the: a) response
set.

b) Response
rate.

c) response
bias

d) population

2. The question,
“Do you think that television should have less violence and fewer shows
about sex” (answered on a 7-point agree to disagree scale), is
considered: a) double-barrelled.

b) loaded.

c) open-ended.

d) qualitative

e) all of
the above

3. Which type of
question is most likely to be used when the researcher is just beginning to
explore what people think about a particular topic?

a) closed-ended

b) open-ended

c) multiple-choice

d) true-false

4. If people do not
respond honestly on a survey, this may be due to something social psychologists
refer to as______: a) A
response set

b) “Faking
bad” to get out of homework

c) Social
desirability effect

d) All of
the above are correct

5. With open-ended
questions, respondents are ________.

A) free to
answer any way they like

B) given a
limited number of response alternatives

C) led to
respond in one particular way

D) likely to
respond either “yea-saying” or “nay-saying”

6. With ___________, every member of the
population has an equal probability of being selected for the sample.

A) simple
random sampling

B) non-probability
sampling

C) quota
sampling

D) cluster
sampling

E) Snowball
samples

7. Which of the following is a form of
probability sampling?

A) cluster
sampling

B) haphazard
sampling

C) quota
sampling D) All of the above.

8. What is a major distinction between
quantitative and qualitative descriptive methods? Quantitative techniques use ____ while
qualitative techniques involve _____.

A) correlational
methods; experimental methods

B) experimental
methods; correlational methods

C) numerical
descriptions; verbal descriptions

D) verbal
descriptions; numerical descriptions

9. When a
representative sample of individuals are questioned about their opinions, this
is known as a:

A) Field
Study

B) Survey

C) Correlational
Study

D) Double
Blind Study

E) Experiment

10. Providing a
5-point rating scale to be used to answer questions on a survey is an example
of: A) Open ended questions

B) Closed
ended questions

C) All of
the above

11. If your sample
does not represent everyone in a population, then the results of your study
will not be generalizable to the population, and we would say the study lacks
_____________

A) Random
Sampling

B) Stratified
Sampling

C) Internal
Validity

D) External
Validity

E) Informed
consent (not-ethical)

12. Dr. Silverman is
interested in the daily activities of a group of 4th graders. He asks the children to indicate the amount
of time per day they spend watching television, playing games, and studying. This type of data gathering technique would
be an example of a(n) _____ approach.

A) organizational
(archival) research

B) quantitative
research

C) qualitative
research

D) experiential
case study

13. A researcher
wants to gather information on citizens’ feelings about the building of a new
airport in their neighborhood. She
gathers groups of citizens and engages them in a discussion about the
advantages and disadvantages of the proposed airport. This type of data gathering would best be referred
to as a(n) ______ approach.

A) organizational
evaluation

B) quantitative
survey

C) qualitative
focus group

D) experiential
case study

14. The research
approach in which the researcher does not actually collect original data, but
analyzes already existing data, is called

__________ A) a psychobiography.

B) a field
experiment.

C) Archival
research.

D) Statistical
reporting.

15. This is a review
of multiple studies, in which an “effect size” is calculated for each study,
and then combined so a conclusion can be made about the entire series of
multiple studies. a) Archival study

b) Meta-analysis

c) Literature
review

d) Survey

e) Naturalistic
Observation

16. “Do you think it is important to decrease the
extreme amount of money wasted on holiday decorations?” is an example of a
_____ question.

A) double-barrelled

B) negative
wording

C) loaded

D) simplistic

17. “Do you favor
that elected officials not be allowed to run for more than two consecutive
terms in office?” is an example of which type of question? A) Double-barreled

B) Simplistic

C) Yea-saying
and nay-saying

D) Negative
wording

18. This is a measurement
of the direction and strength of the relationship between two dependent
variables: a) correlation

b) between
subjects main effect

c) naturalistic
observational

d) Analysis
of Variance

e) Demographic
results

19. A high positive
correlation between exercise and caloric consumption means:

a) people
eat more, and this causes them to exercise.

b) Exercise
causes people to become hungry, so they eat more.

c) the two
variables are related – as exercise goes up so does exercising, and vice versa.

d) none of
the above is correct.

20. Sampling
techniques are MOST important in what aspect of a study?

A. the
reliability of the results

B. the
treatment effects

C. generalizing
the results to the population

D. the
internal validity of the study

21. In a research
study, the experimenter manipulated the Independent Variable, and then assigned
subjects to the various conditions using a random number table. In this way the groups were similar in
makeup. This is known as: a. Simple Random sampling

b. Random
selection of sample

c. Randomized
assignment

d. Micro-genetic
research

22. Which type of
scale has adjectives at each end of the scale that are opposites of each other?
a) Semantic differential

b) Likert

c) Staple

d) Max Diff

23. Classifying males
and females by entering data as a 1 for female, and 2 for male, is an example
of which measurement level?

A. Nominal

B. Ordinal

C. Interval

D. Ratio
Scale

24. A researcher enters data for the year
in college of survey participants. She enters 1=First year students,
2=sophomores, 3=Juniors, 4=Seniors. This
is an example of what type of measurement level?

A. Nominal C. Interval

B. Ordinal D. Ratio Scale

25. A researcher classifies workers as: 1)
clerical, 2) technical or 3) administrative.
This example is which measurement scale?

A. Nominal C. Interval

B. Ordinal D. Ratio Scale

26. A researcher enters data for the income
(in dollars earned annually) of each type of worker in the study above. This is an example of what type of
measurement level?

A. Nominal

B. Ordinal

C. Interval

D. Ratio
Scale

27. Students are divided into 2 groups. One
group of all male students listened to classical music during an exam, while
the other group of all female students took the test in silence. The researchers observed that students did
better in the silent group than the music condition. What is confounded in this
study?

A. Music and
Silence

B. Gender
and music

C. Test
performance and gender

D. Test
performance and music

28. The process of clearly identifying how
a variable is measured or manipulated is referred to as the _______ of the
variable.

A. reliability

B. validity

C. level

D. operational
definition

29. When studying the effect of maternal
alcohol use on disruptive behavior in children, the child’s behavior is
considered:

A. The
independent variable

B. The
dependent variable

C. Unrelated
to maternal alcohol use

D. A
researcher manipulated variable

30. When studying effects of maternal
alcohol use on disruptive child behaviors; maternal alcohol use is:

A. The
independent variable

B. The
dependent variable

C. Unrelated
to maternal alcohol use

D. A
researcher manipulated variable

31. The
presence of an extraneous variable (confound) in an experiment is undesirable
because: a) a remission is likely to occur.

b) The
experimenter cannot be sure if the results are due to the extraneous variable
or the independent variables.

c) it
increases the number of subjects required for each of the treatment groups.

d) it allows
you to draw a strong conclusion since the use of statistics on the data is
impossible.

32. Psychology is a
science? A. True B.
False