Exam 8: How Do Researchers Study Patterns That Span Populations and Categories of Experience Questionnaires and Structured Interviews

The response rates for online surveys are ______________.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a structured interview?

What is problematic about the following question: "Do you agree that welfare payments for the neediest sections of the population are a waste of money?"

Because respondents fill out a questionnaire on their own, there is no social interaction between the researcher and the respondent.

A collection of questions asked during a structured interview with a specified order and consistent wording is called a(n) ___________________.

What are some of the advantages and disadvantage of online surveys over traditional survey research?

Survey research allows sociologists to identify patterns that extend across large populations and categories of people.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of questionnaires?

A fence-sitter is someone chooses a neutral response even though they do have a stronger opinion on a topic.

A researcher wants to understand how much respondents understand about the COVID-19 vaccine. What type of question should they focus on in their survey research?

Because all respondents are asked the same set of questions, researchers can assume that the differences in responses reflect differences between people.

Which of the following is not true about question ordering?

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of open-ended versus closed-ended questions. Use Lu and Wong's research to highlight the importance of both types of questions.

Leshem and colleague's study found that social desirability was a factor in how the participants responded to questions about political self-determination regardless of how the questions were administered.

Leshem and team found that when self-administered ____________.

Leshem and team discovered an issue with social desirability in their study of political attitudes about the future, peace, and conflict among Israelis and Palestinians. How did they test for this?

Interview or questionnaire items with a fixed set of possible answers to choose from are called___________________.

Why was it important that Williams and colleagues used a mixed-method approach in their study of gamers?

How successful is the structured interview in reducing interviewer variability? Explain your answer.

Errors and inaccuracies in data collecting resulting from question and survey design or concerns with social desirability is known as ____________.