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Chapter 12

1. Experimenter expectancies are a kind of __________.

treatment effect

control

demand characteristic

reactivity

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

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

deciding on how many items to include

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

deciding on the sampling strategy for administration

3. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether questions on a test are a fair and representative sample of the content they are supposed to test.

construct

criterion

content

parallel-forms

4. Recruiting indigent people for research on the effects of sensory deprivation with the inducement of a week's food and lodging would violate the Belmont Report's principle of:

respect.

justice.

informed consent.

beneficence.

5. Convenience sampling is to __________ as probability sampling is to __________.

recruiting volunteers, lack of the ability to generalize results with calculable error

random, non-random

time-consuming, use of computer selection

campus subject pool, population

6. __________ is to test validity as __________ is to inter-rater reliability.

correlation, r

r, kappa

t, correlation

F, t

7. One reason for debriefing in research that is NOT suggested in the dictionary definition is:

giving participants the educational benefit of learning about the research.

assessing the conduct of participants during the research.

explaining and correcting any deception.

cautioning participants not to discuss the experiment with other potential participants.

8. __________ questions are better in the beginning stages of researching a particular problem.

Open-ended

Closed

Forced choice

Combination

9. 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

rank order

magnitude estimation

agree-disagree

Likert-type rating scale

10. The following closed question uses what format?

In answering the following question, assign a number that represents how important each of the following is in selecting an apartment. Give the number "1" the most important, "2" to the next most important, etc.
_____ proximity to campus
_____ safety of the neighborhood
_____ cost of rent
_____ size
_____ attractiveness

Likert-type rating scale

agree-disagree

magnitude estimation

rank-order

11. Spearman-Brown is to __________ reliability as KR-20 is to __________ reliability.

inter-observer, intra-observer

parallel-forms, test-retest

split-half, alpha

alpha, parallel-forms

12. All of the following are strategies for controlling for the effects of suggestion and for participant reactivity EXCEPT:

holding demand characteristics constant for all conditions.

randomly assigning subjects to groups.

"blinding" experimenters, observers, and participants as to subjects' experimental conditions.

randomly assigning observers and experimenters to the conditions of the study.