Quiz 5 - Chapters 8&9 Flashcards

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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:

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A nominal variable

  • Mutually exclusive categorization
  • Has to be one or the other
  • No numeric value
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The real and observable things that give evidence of the presence or absence of the concept being studied are:

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Indicators

more specific than measures, which tend to be more general

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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…

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The specific dimensions of the variable to be studied

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4
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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…

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Sensitive to change over time

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5
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The tendency of people to answer questions through a filter that will convey a favorable impression is called…

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Social desirability bias

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An interview with someone with a limited vocabulary who therefore does not understand the questions being asked is like to produce…

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Random errror

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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…

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Precision

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8
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Most social scientists would not accept the conceptualization of IQ as foot size because such a measurement would lack…

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Validity

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Asking a group of experts whether the items on a scale appear to measure what they intended to measure is a good way to assess the scale’s…

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Content Validity

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