Deck 2: The Who, How, and Why of Research

Question 1

Stopping people to answer your questionnaire as they pass you in a mall is an example of what type of sampling strategy?

A) Convenience sample
B) Snowball sample
C) Simple random sample
D) Cluster sample
E) Systematic sample

Answer 1

A

Question 2

If you were to select a sample of college students at your university by surveying the students enrolled in your classes this semester, you would have a:

A) random sample
B) non-random sample

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Drawing a sample of neighborhoods in a city, and selecting from this group a sample of city blocks, and then selecting every 5^th house on a block, is an example of what type of sampling strategy?

A) Convenience sample
B) Snowball sample
C) Simple random sample
D) Cluster sample
E) Systematic sample

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In your study of college students' exam-related stress you select a random sample of 400 students at your college to participate, but only 180 students respond to your internet survey. If these respondents seem motivated to respond to your survey because they experience high stress and this is a topic that is important to them, you have a problem with:

A) statistical weighting
B) response bias
C) margin of error
D) cohort effects
E) attrition

Question 5

In a study assessing the effects of violent films on children's empathy, the independent variable is:

A) Level of film violence
B) Level of empathy following the film

Question 6

'Finding Nemo' (an animated children's film) and a Harry Potter movie are both showing at the same time at the local theatre. You decide to conduct a study in which you measure children's levels of empathy as they leave the theatre. Which of the following best describes this research?

A) naturalistic observation
B) quasi-experimental research
C) experimental research

Question 7

You are interested in what predicts whether adolescents will engage in illegal drug use. You select a sample of 8^th grade students and follow these same students through high school, collecting data each year. This is an example of a/n:

A) cross-sectional design
B) longitudinal design
C) one-shot design
D) repeated independent-samples design
E) naturalistic design