Exam 5: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement

Talk about: -validity

Talk about: -exhaustive attributes

Dr. Liu found a high correlation between his operational definition of fear of crime and watching too much prime-time television. From this he can conclude

Use the letters marking parts of the diagram of the measurement process to identify the following parts. -Conceptualization of the dependent variable:

Green County Social Services Department is interested in placing a group home for adults with mental retardation in a neighborhood. The department wants to measure the feelings of people in the Meadowood neighborhood towards cognitively disabled adults. The staff creates a questionnaire that contains an item that has six categories for the degree of contact that goes from "Having cognitively disabled adults in my city," to "Having a cognitively disabled adult as a roommate." Neighborhood residents are to begin with the first category and mark all those that they feel personally comfortable with. The questionnaire uses the

Talk about: -standardization

Dr. Liu developed a new measure of fear of crime. His conceptual definition was: The degree of emotional, behavioral, or mental response to a real or imagined theft of property or attack on one's person or family members. He then developed one question for a survey to measure his concept: "Do you lock your car doors when you park to go shopping?" What is the MAJOR problem with his measure?

Talk about: -discrete variables

Talk about: -face validity

Talk about: -conceptual hypothesis

Talk about: -Bogardus Social Distance Scale

Talk about: -Guttman scaling

Talk about: -index

Talk about: -predictive validity

Talk about: -internal validity

Use the letters marking parts of the diagram of the measurement process to identify the following parts. -Empirical hypothesis:

Talk about: -conceptualization

Dr. Smellie's survey question asked students to indicate their class standing as one of the following: Fresh., Soph., Jr., Sr., or Grad. He measured the variable at what level of measurement?

Talk about: -content validity

Refer to the following paragraph to answer the questions below. Maria Valencia developed a new test to measure intelligence or IQ. She claimed that, using her test, someone with an IQ of 180 would be considered twice as intelligent as someone with an IQ of 90. In addition, someone with an IQ of 90 was three times as intelligent as someone with an IQ of 30. In order to see how good it was, she tested two groups of students with her new test during the first week of the semester. One group scored low on existing IQ tests. The other scored very high. She found that those who scored low on old tests usually scored low on her new test, while those who scored very high on old tests usually scored high on the new test. In addition, she had the group of people who took the new test retake it at the midterm and again at the end of the semester. She found that a person's IQ score did not change across the three times it was measured during the semester. -By comparing it with an old test, she has shown the new measure to have