Exam 7: B: Survey Design and Scale Construction: Is Going Greek a Great Idea

A 2005 study examining social attitudes found that people's attitudes do not necessarily correspond to their:

In order to establish a scale's construct validity researchers need to evaluate the scale's ______ and discriminant validity.

Dr.Clarion had one group of research participants complete scale 1 first and scale 2 next and had the other group of participants complete scale 2 first and scale 1 next.This was done in an effort to:

According to a well-known 1995 study examining social relationships,we human beings have a fundamental need to:

Marcus made a very poignant statement at a recent meeting.He said,"An unreliable scale cannot be _____"

Dr.Cortez determined that the mean for both experimental groups was the same.However,it is important to not only look at the central tendency of both groups,but also the ______ of data among each group.

Simple random sampling functions on the idea that:

When including a write-up for a correlation in the results section of a manuscript you must include both ______ and direction.

Hillary is interested in a high degree of connectedness between the items on her scale of childhood anxiety.She is most interested in:

According to a study that examined variables related to the self,self-concept clarity refers to:

Dante used a public scale for an experiment in his sociology class to examine satisfaction with community resources.Dante realized that some of the questions are written inversely.He is trying to determine a way to sum participants' responses on the scale so that a higher number accurately reflects a higher degree of satisfaction with community resources.Dante should use:

Dr.Kruze gave his physics class an exam last week.Many of his students complain that the exam did not test them on any of the material they learned in lecture.The students are suggesting the exam had poor:

Marjorie felt indifferent so answered straight down the middle of the scale in a survey about her political associations.This bias is referred to as the:

Drs.Jackson and O'Brien work at a residential chemical dependency unit.They are interested in studying coping strategies among heroin users.The doctors survey residents at the chemical dependency unit where they work.They are using a(n):

One study examined differences in women who wanted to join sororities and women who did not want to join.Those women who wanted to rush a sorority tended to have a higher need to be the center of attention,but surprisingly did not have a higher need for:

A small degree of variability and a small standard deviation within a set of scores suggests:

Corlita is interested in the relationship between Internet gaming and the quality of romantic relationships.The best research approach to examine this research question would be:

Rosenberg (1969)found that individuals become concerned with how researchers may interpret their answers or behaviors during research studies.This is referred to as:

To establish a scale's construct validity researchers need to evaluate the scale's convergent and ______validity.

One way to improve a scale's precision and minimize the error of central tendency is to: