Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. In creating your own questionnaire, your first decision is __________.
        
2. When reliability is determined by dividing the items on a test into two halves and correlating participants' scores on these parts, the result is known as the test's reliability.
        
3. Your application to the IRE should describe your plan for preserving the confidentiality of participants' data and records to avoid risks to them. Such a plan is necessary to uphold the Belmont Report's principle of:
        
4. 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
        
5. 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):
        
6. Which of the following is NOT a strategy for controlling demand characteristics?
        
7. Two students were observing the out-of-seat behavior of a hyperactive first-grader together. After their observation, they calculated Cohen's kappa. They were determining __________.
        
8. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether or not test scores are useful in predicting future behavior or diagnosing a present condition.
        
9. Survey researchers typically use _________ sampling in recruiting participants for their studies.
        
10. Researchers gain information on by checking the agreement in the ratings made by the same observer at different times.
        
11. Probability sampling is to ___________ as convenience sampling is to __________.
        
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