Exam 5: Concepts Operationalization And-Measurement

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

The production report generated at the city police department contains the number of arrests made by each officer on a monthly basis.What level of measurement would number of arrests be?

The ___________method lays the groundwork for a check on reliability in regards to making multiple measures of the same complex concept.

Which of the following sequences illustrates the progression of measurement steps?

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 - 10 their own fear of crime.Which is the highest level of measurement that is illustrated by this example?

Reliability is measuring what you think you are measuring.

A researcher concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will,after repeated measures,yield the same results is concerned with:

________________validity refers to particular empirical measures that may or may not accurately reflect the common agreements on concepts.

Logical sets of attributes are known as:

Which of the following is representative of the dimension "victim harm"?

Measurement is difficult and______________ ,therefore researchers try to describe the measurement process explicitly.

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?

Content validity refers to:

Recidivism is a term to represent a collection of unrelated phenomena that we have either observed or heard about somewhere.

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

Professor Jenkins is interested in attitudes toward the trying juveniles as adults and plans to assess support for this hypothesis by asking whether or not subjects say they would travel to countries that allow juveniles to stand trial as an adult.Critics would say this measure lacks:

A person's height as a measure of a person's IQ would be seen as having what problem?

Which of the following best represents the abstract "reliability"?

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

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