Exam 4: Concepts, Operationalization, and Measurement

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

Reliability is measuring what you think you are measuring.

Delinquency, victimless crimes, and crimes rarely observed may be measured by self-report studies.

A specifiable aspect of a given concept is referred to as a _____.

There are no nationwide efforts to ________________ collect self-report measures to all types of crimes.

The UCR accounts for all types of crime, even those crimes that are not observed.

What two qualities should every variable possess?

____________________ is an effort to convert the UCR to a more comprehensive crime report.

Validity that is related to the logical relationships between variables is known as _____.

An indicator of the dimension "victim harm" is _____.

Specifying the different ____________ of a concept often paves the way for a more sophisticated understanding of what we are studying.

NIBRS reports each crime incident rather than the total number of certain crimes.

Ordinal measures are variables whose attributes may be logically rank-ordered.

Ask students to identify the four levels of measurement and give examples of each.

The primary difference between the interval and the ratio level of variables is that _____.

A definition that says exactly how a concept will be measured is ___________.

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

What are the two important things achieved by the specification of conceptual definitions?

Words or symbols in language that we use to represent mental images are 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?