Exam 5: Concepts Operationalization and Measurement

A researcher has measured fear of crime by asking the subjects whether or not they were afraid of crime and by asking them to rate from 1 to 10 their own fear of crime. Which is the highest level of measurement that is illustrated by this example?

A definition that spells out precisely how the concept will be measured is known as  __________ .

What type of variable allows you to arrange attributes from greater than to less than, but does not allow you to tell how much greater or how much less than one attribute is from another?

The process of regarding as real things that are not is called  __________.

For each of the following variables, give its level of measurement and whether the variable is discrete or continuous. a.________________ ________________ verdict at trial b.________________ ________________ gender of victim c.________________ ________________ age of offender d.________________ ________________ violent offender e.________________ ________________ ranks in a police department

When the actual distance that separates the attributes composing variables has meaning, the variables are

When a supervisor for a survey contacts a subset of the respondents to verify certain information, it is an example of

Validating an individual measure to compare it with alternative measures of the same concept is known as

One good indicator of crime seriousness is harm to the crime victim.

__________  is the process by which we specify precisely what we mean when we use a particular term.

Attributes composing a variable should be

With respect to levels of measurement, which of the following is not correct?

Which of the following statements is not correct?

The design and execution of criminal justice research requires eliminating the confusion over concepts and reality. To accomplish this, scientists have found it useful to distinguish three kinds of definitions: real, conceptual, and

Researchers must be able to classify every observation in terms of one and only one attribute. Which of the following terms best describes this concept?

__________ are the words or symbols in language that we use to represent mental images.

Variables whose attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutual exclusiveness are  __________ measures.

Because low marital adjustment should lead to divorce, Professor Quinn checked his measure of marital adjustment by examining whether couples with low martial-adjustment scores later obtained divorces. This illustrates the use of

Conceptualization is the process by which we specify precisely what we mean when we use particular terms.

Which of the following variables allows for attributes to be placed on a continuum with equal distance between points?