CRJ 101 Exam #2 Chapter 7

1. 1What are the three features of surveys?

   1. AVersatility
   2. BEfficiency
   3. CGeneralizability.
   4. DAll of them
2. 2As we discussed in class and from your text, what are some appropriate survey topics?
   Any range of topics of interested to different social scientists. (Quality of services provided in schools).
   

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse
3. 3Researcher fills in own answer for ________ and Researcher choose from list of possible responses for __________.

   1. AOpen-ended and Closed-ended questions:
   2. BClarity of the question/statement
   3. CAvoiding double-barreled questions
   4. DExhaustive’ and Mutually Exclusive
4. 4Use correct grammar, break complex ideas into several questions to address each separately. One topic/idea per Q. Don’t abbreviate Q’

   1. AClarity of the question/statement
   2. BOpen-ended and Closed-ended questions
   3. CAvoiding biased terms/items
   4. DAvoiding double-barreled questions
5. 5Do you disagree that there should not be a death penalty?

   1. AImportance of avoiding negative items
   2. BAvoiding biased terms/items
   3. CAvoiding double-barreled questions
   4. DContingent questions
6. 6Present both sides of an attitude scale in question itself. Words should make respondents comfortable to answer. Don’t ask questions they can’t answer.
   

   1. AAvoiding biased terms/items
   2. BAvoiding double-barreled questions
   3. CImportance of avoiding negative items
   4. DContingent questions
7. 7Prison system should stop releasing inmates for weekend furloughs and concentrate on rehabilitating criminals?

   1. AAvoiding double-barreled questions
   2. BAvoiding biased terms/items
   3. CAvoiding negative items
   4. DContingent questions
8. 8A survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked to other questions.

   1. AFilter Questions
   2. BContingent Questions
9. 9A question that is asked of only a subset of survey respondents.

   1. AContingent questions
   2. BFilter Questions
10. 10The unique combination of questions created in a survey by filter and contingent questions. (Are you married? Yes / No. Skip to Q 5.)

    1. ASkip patterns
    2. BContingent questions
    3. CFilter questions

11. 11Same set of answers categories used by multiple questions.

    1. AMatrix questions
    2. B“Likert” style questions
    3. CSkip patterns
    4. DContingent questions
12. 12They are usually declarative statements, not Q’s. React to statement by identifying intensity of feeling/belief/ and opinion. (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree).

    1. A“Likert” style questions
    2. BMatrix questions
    3. CSkip Patterns
13. 13Think about the possible distribution methods for a self-administered questionnaire (through the US mail, handed out to a specified group at a meeting, etc.). What are possible pitfalls? How might you deal with them?
    Presences of interviewer may illicit different results depending on the interviewer). (Interviewer who is smiling versus interviewer who has a straight serious face).

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
14. 14Computer based self-administered questionnaires add another dimension to research.
    Computers can be used to increase control of the in-person interviews. However, the presence of interviewer may make it more difficult for respondents to give honest answers about socially undesirable behaviors. (Interviewers can hand respondent a separate set of sensitive questionnaire in an envelope so interviewers don’t know the Ans.

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
15. 15We have talked a good deal about the need for ‘exhaustive’ and ‘mutually exclusive’ measurement.
    Fixed response choices must provide one and only one possible response where picking one answer out rule picking out the other. Avoid answers that overlap. (0-10, 10-15)

    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse

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