Exam 5: Concepts Operationalization and Measurement

Although a person's observations and experiences are real, his or her concepts are

Content validity refers to the degree to which a measure covers the range of meanings included within the  __________ .

According to Abraham Kaplan's (1964) discussion, which of the following are not included in the three classes of things that a researcher measures?

Criterion-related validity refers to

The test-retest method is used to examine

If we consider the theft of $20 from a poor person to be more serious than the theft of $2,000 from a wealthy CEO of an oil company, victim wealth, in this case, could be considered a(n)

Ratio measures are the highest level, followed by

Sometimes it is necessary to make the same measurement more than once, which is known as the

When the actual distance that separates the attributes composing some variables does have meaning, the variables are described as

The penalties that are assigned to different crimes by law are best characterized as a dimension of

Researchers combine  __________  in different ways to produce different composite measures.

Which is the vaguest sense of a term?

Use an example from criminal justice and create an index.

The conceptualization and operationalization processes can be seen as the specification of variables and the  __________  composing them.

Mental images of serious crime may vary among individuals depending on their backgrounds and experiences.

Reliability is measuring what you think you are measuring.

In research, the process of regarding something as real (such as crime seriousness) when it is not is called

Measures of jail capacity were operationalized as whether or not there were more inmates housed at the end of the year than the original building design called for. This would be an example of what level of measurement?

The study of food-buying habits where researchers were interested in learning whether people who drank wine ate healthier foods than people who drank beer is a good example of

Professor Smith is studying attitudes toward gun control and plans to assess support for firearms registration by determining whether or not her research subjects say they would travel to countries where the possession of unlicensed guns is legal. Her critics argue that this measure lacks