quiz 7

1. 1A college administrator knows that 70% of the students at her college are from out of state, so she decides to make sure that she includes 70 out-of-state students and 30 in-state students in her survey about admission practices at the college. She has a list of all the out-of-state and in-state students currently enrolled at the college. She randomly selects 70 students from the out-of-state list and 30 students from the in-state list. Which sampling method is she using?

   1. Acluster sampling
   2. Bmultistage sampling
   3. Cquota sampling
   4. Dstratified random sampling
2. 2A political research center obtains a list of phone numbers for all registered voters in Texas and uses a random number generator to select 1,000 of the phone numbers to call. They ask each voter which candidate for governor they plan to vote for in the upcoming election. To which population of interest does the research center want to generalize?

   1. AAll Americans
   2. BAll Texans
   3. Call registered voters in Texas
   4. Dall the people likely to vote for the Republican candidate for governor
3. 3A political research center obtains a list of phone numbers for all registered voters in Texas and uses a random number generator to select 1,000 of the phone numbers to call. They ask each voter which candidate for governor they plan to vote for in the

   1. Asimple random sampling
   2. Bstratified random sampling
   3. Cmultistage sampling
   4. Dsystematic sampling
4. 4Beth is working on a research study focused on attention span in children. Among the participants, the group of 11-year-old boys is underrepresented. Beth asks her 11-year-old brother to distribute flyers about participation in the study to his male classmates and soccer team. Which type of sampling is this?

   1. Amultistage
   2. Bsnowball
   3. Crandom
   4. Dself-selected
5. 5Dr. Jennings is doing a study on the experience of being a racial minority on a college campus. He goes to the Asian Student Association, Black Student Union, and Hispanic Student Group on his campus to recruit participants for his study. Dr. Jennings only includes Asians, African Americans, and Hispanic participants in his study. Which type of sampling is Dr. Jennings using?

   1. Aquota sampling
   2. Bcluster sampling
   3. Csystematic sampling
   4. Dpurposive sampling
6. 6Dr. Lawrence is the director of Counseling Services at her university. She is planning to conduct a survey of 100 students at the university to see how aware they are of the counseling services offered at the university. She wants the proportion of men and women in her sample to reflect the proportion in the university as a whole (55% women and 45% men). Dr. Lawrence plans to stand in the Student Union and ask people to participate until she has given the survey to 55 women and 45 men. Which type of sampling method is Dr. Lawrence going to use?

   1. Acluster sampling
   2. Bmultistage sampling
   3. Cquota sampling
   4. Dstratified random sampling
7. 7Dr. Lawrence is the director of Counseling Services at her university. She is planning to conduct a survey of 100 students at the university to see how aware they are of the counseling services that are offered at the university. She wants the proportion of men and women in her sample to reflect the proportion in the university as a whole (55% women and 45% men). Dr. Lawrence plans to stand in the Student Union and ask people to participate until she has given the survey to 55 women and 45 men. Is Dr. Lawrence collecting a representative sample?

   1. AYes, because the sample includes a representative proportion of men and women.
   2. BYes, because all the students in her sample match the population of interest.
   3. CNo, because 100 people are not enough for a representative sample.
   4. DNo, because the participants are selected nonrandomly.
8. 8Dr. Rhodes is interested in how differing levels of light affect how people perceive color. He finds participants for this research study by making an announcement in several psychology classes at his university. Which kind of sampling method is Dr. Rhodes using?

   1. Asnowball sampling
   2. Bsystematic sampling
   3. Cconvenience sampling
   4. Dcluster sampling
9. 9Dr. Rhodes is interested in how differing levels of light affect how people perceive color. He finds participants for this research study by making an announcement in several psychology classes at his university. Should Dr. Rhodes be concerned about using this sampling method for his research study?

   1. AYes, because his sample will not be representative of all college students.
   2. BYes, because external validity is the top priority for the type of claim he is making.
   3. CNo, because external validity isn't the top priority for the type of claim he is making.
   4. DNo, because his sample is representative of all college students.
10. 10Mr. Stratford is the president of a national organization of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender people in the United States. He wants to survey 1,000 members of his organization about the position they want the organization to take on several political issues. He knows that transgender people make up only 5% of his organization, but he wants to make sure their views are accurately represented. He decides to randomly sample 100 transgender members and then adjust the final results so transgender people are weighted to their actual proportion in the organization. Which type of sampling is Mr. Stratford using?

    1. Aoversampling
    2. Bcluster sampling
    3. Csnowball sampling
    4. Dquota sampling

11. 11Mr. Stratford is the president of a national organization of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender people in the United States. He wants to survey 1,000 members of his organization about the position they want the organization to take on several political issues. He knows that transgender people make up only 5% of his organization, but he wants to make sure their views are accurately represented. He decides to randomly sample 100 transgender members and then adjust the final results so transgender people are weighted to their actual proportion in the organization. Is Mr. Stratford collecting a representative sample?

    1. AYes, because 1,000 people is enough to make a representative sample.
    2. BYes, because the transgender people in the final sample were sampled randomly from the population of transgender people in the organization.
    3. CNo, because the transgender people are over-represented in the final sample.
    4. DNo, because the sample is not representative of the entire population in general
12. 12The campus safety committee has asked Professor Ibrahim to study bicycling on his campus. He trains two observers and has them observe the number of cyclists and their safety at various points around campus. He randomly selects 10 observation locations from the places bicycles can be ridden on campus and randomly selects five 1-hour spans of time for each place. He has his observers make observations at each of the 10 places for each of the five time spans. Which type of sampling is he using?

    1. Asimple random sampling
    2. Bstratified random sampling
    3. Cmultistage sampling
    4. Dsystematic sampling
13. 13The directors of an annual community concert want to learn the musical preferences of the audience. The ushers place a survey card on every sixth seat beginning with the second seat (2 and 6 were chosen from a random number table). All the cards are returned as the audience leaves. Which type of sampling is being used?

    1. Acluster sampling
    2. Bsystematic sampling
    3. Cmultistage sampling
    4. Dstratified random sampling
14. 14The student government at a college is interested in determining how important intercollegiate sports are to the students there. Because all students have e-mail accounts, the student government can send a survey to all the students. About 50% of the students respond. Which is the most likely bias in this sample?

    1. Aself selection bias
    2. Bconvenience sampling bias
    3. Coversampling bias
    4. Drandom sampling bias
15. 15The superintendent of schools in a small town in Ohio made many policy changes to the way school administration worked in his district. A researcher at a nearby university wanted to look at what teachers in his district thought about the changes. The researcher made a list of all the schools in the district and used a random number generator to select a sample of five schools from the district. Then the researcher interviewed every teacher at each of those five schools. Which sampling method did the researcher use?

    1. Asimple random sampling
    2. Bcluster sampling
    3. Csystematic sampling
    4. Dpurposive sampling
16. 16Typically, in which type of claim is it most important to have a random sample?

    1. Aassociation
    2. Bcausal
    3. Cfrequency
    4. Danecdotal
17. 17Which correctly completes the following sentence? A sample is always __________ a population.

    1. Alarger than
    2. Bthe same size as
    3. Csmaller than
    4. Dunrelated to
18. 18Which kind of sample is best for external validity?

    1. Aa sample that can be collected as quickly and conveniently as possible
    2. Ba sample that includes as many members of the population as possible
    3. Ca sample that includes members of the population who are motivated to volunteer
    4. Da sample in which each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected
19. 19Which of the following is considered a nonprobability sampling method?

    1. Aconvenience sampling
    2. Bcluster sampling
    3. Cstratified random sampling
    4. Dmultistage sampling
20. 20Which of the following is considered a representative sampling method?

    1. Asnowball sampling
    2. Bconvenience sampling
    3. Cself-selected sampling
    4. Dsystematic sampling
21. 21Which of the following is most important for enhancing external validity?

    1. Arandom assignment
    2. Brandom sampling
    3. Ca large sample size
    4. Dusing measures that are valid and reliable
22. 22Which of the following is the term used when every member of a population is studied?

    1. Aa biased sample
    2. Ba representative sample
    3. Ca census
    4. Doversampling
23. 23Which of the following refers to the entire set of people in which the researchers are interested?

    1. Arepresentative sample
    2. Bbiased sample
    3. Cpopulation
    4. Dquota sample
24. 24Which sample size is often cited as the optimal balance between statistical accuracy and polling effort?

    1. A100
    2. B500
    3. C1000
    4. D2000
25. 25Which sample would be most likely to represent the population of American teenagers?

    1. Aa cluster sampling of 1,000 teenagers from around the United States
    2. Ba snowball sampling of 1,500 teenagers from around the United States
    3. Ca convenience sample of 1,200 U.S. teenagers
    4. Da purposive sample of 1,250 U.S. teenagers

Description

Psychology Quiz on quiz 7, created by Sandra Bell on 21/10/2020.

Author

Sandra Bell

Language

English

Views

0

Tags

psychology

Rating

No ratings yet

Rate this quiz

Rate this quiz

More on Sampling Methods