Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. The general education committee at a regional university is concerned about scientific literacy in its students. They have developed a multi-disciplinary course which they hope will enhance students' knowledge about science. As part of the course, they have developed a new test of scientific literacy. They want to know whether their test is a good measure of scientific knowledge and so will measure __________.

alpha reliability

criterion validity

parallel-forms reliability

content validity

2. __________ reliability is determined by correlating scores for two administrations of the same test on the same group of people.

Split-half

Test-retest

Alpha

Parallel-forms

3. Of the following, who is associated with the magnitude estimation question format?

Stevens

Buros

Orne

Rosenthal

4. The mentally retarded child's behavior improved as soon as the researcher began to pay him individual attention. This is an example of __________.

treatment effectiveness

experimental cues

therapist effectiveness

the Hawthorne effect

5. Probability sampling is to ___________ as convenience sampling is to __________.

surveys, experimentation

time-consuming, use of computer selection

campus subject pool, population

ease in recruitment, labor-intensive

6. In creating your own questionnaire, your first decision is __________.

deciding on how many items to include

deciding on the sampling strategy for administration

deciding whether to use "open-ended" or "closed" questions

deciding on whether to use the Likert or agree-disagree format

7. Two student research assistants were randomly assigned to collecting data for either the treatment or control condition. This technique is an attempt to __________.

balance the work load

assign treatments systematically

control for guessing

avoid experimenter expectancies

8. The question "What products do you think the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate?" with response alternatives: prescription drugs, herbal medicine, cigarettes, vitamins,toothpaste, other (please specify), is an example of a(n):

open-ended question.

closed question.

combination open-ended and closed question.

9. Martin Orne's term for cues that suggest hypotheses to participants in research is:

reactance cues.

construct invalidity.

experimenter expectancy effects.

demand characteristics.

10. The question below is an example of what kind of general question format?

Check the reasons you would use in selecting a course.
_____ required for major
_____ recommended by friends
_____ recommended by advisor
_____ fits in your schedule
_____ teacher is an easy grader
_____ sounded interesting
_____ other (please specify)

combination

open-ended

closed

forced choice

11. Experimenter expectancies are a kind of __________.

control

reactivity

demand characteristic

treatment effect

12. The following closed question offers what type of format?

I am a person of worth
a = Strongly Disagree; b = Disagree; c = Agree; d = Strongly Agree

magnitude estimation

Likert-type rating scale

rank order

agree-disagree