Quiz 5 - Chapters 8&9 Flashcards
A questionnaire contained the item “educational level completed” and responses of grade school, junior high school, high school, college, graduate degree, other. A researcher asked subjects to check the appropriate response. The researcher is using this question to measure:
A nominal variable
- Mutually exclusive categorization
- Has to be one or the other
- No numeric value
The real and observable things that give evidence of the presence or absence of the concept being studied are:
Indicators
more specific than measures, which tend to be more general
Measuring how practitioners feel about working with minority clients when you really want to know how well informed they are about cross-cultural practice is a problem of operationalization concerning…
The specific dimensions of the variable to be studied
When choosing an existing scale as an operational definition of self-esteem for children to complete before and after an intervention, the scale should be…
Sensitive to change over time
The tendency of people to answer questions through a filter that will convey a favorable impression is called…
Social desirability bias
An interview with someone with a limited vocabulary who therefore does not understand the questions being asked is like to produce…
Random errror
Professor Smith gave an exam on Monday. On Wednesday Smith gave the same class the same exam. Smith was clearly interested in assessing the exams…
Precision
Most social scientists would not accept the conceptualization of IQ as foot size because such a measurement would lack…
Validity
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Content Validity
