Exam 5: Concepts Operationalization and Measurement

Which of the following is an attribute of the variable "employment status"?

A researcher concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will, after repeated measures, yield the same results is concerned with

Logicians and scientists have found it useful to distinguish three kinds of definitions

Logical sets of attributes are known as

A lower-level measure cannot be converted to a higher-level one.

Betsie developed a definition of school bullying in such a way that this concept represented what researchers in the field have come to agree upon as the concept's meaning. Betsie developed a/an

Professor Jenkins is interested in attitudes toward the trying juveniles as adults and plans to assess support for this hypothesis by asking whether or not subjects say they would travel to countries that allow juveniles to stand trial as an adult. Critics would say this measure lacks

Discuss the measures used to insure reliability: test-retest method, inter-rater, and split-half method.

An example of direct observables is

The  __________ method lays the groundwork for a check on reliability in regard to making multiple measures of the same complex concept.

R ecidivism is a term to represent a collection of unrelated phenomena that we have either observed or heard about somewhere.

Which is the most specific in terms of scientific study?

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

An empirical measure that adequately reflects the meaning of the concept under consideration is known as

Identify the four levels of measurement and give examples of each.

Words are symbols in language that we use to represent mental images are known as  __________ .

The mental process of making fuzzy and imprecise notions, such as concepts, more specific and price is

__________  is a matter of whether a particular measurement technique, applied repeatedly to the same object, will yield the same result each time.

Combining  __________  measures often produces more valid and reliable indicators.

Which of the following best represents the abstract "reliability"?