Quiz Answers

Which of the following is a type of nonprobability sequential sampling strategy

To keep expenses down from having to travel to every state to conduct a survey, a researcher could instead implement which type of sampling strategy in which they would only survey randomly selected individuals in randomly selected states?

Dr. Jackson has designed a survey to examine the effects of mental health resources on the stigma climate on college campuses. He sends his surveys to college campuses. He sends his surveys to college administrators and support staff. He finds that greater mental health outreach on college campuses leads to lower levels of stigma on campuses. What is Dr. Jackson’s target population?

To make sure that smaller groups are represented properly in study, a researcher might implement which type of sampling strategy to avoid pure chance for causing their sample to be nonrepresentative?

When the goal of sampling is to describe a population, there should be ____ between the people who are selected for the sample and the people who are not selected for the sample.

Which of the following statements about weighting is true?

Research in which respondents are asked questions when they walk by the corner of an intersection is based on which type of sample?

The best sampling strategy depends on ____.

A survey presents respondents with the following questions: “In the past 24 hours, how many text messages have you sent?(circle one) None; 1 to 2 texts; 3 to 5 texts; 6 to 10 texts” Which problem does this question suffer from?

If a question has a dichotomous outcome as the possible response, it must be which type of question?

Which ethical concern should be addressed at the beginning of a survey, often alongside an introduction to the survey?

Which is one of the major limitations of telephone surveys?

A survey presents respondents with the following question: “Do you think the government should raise income taxes and use it to pay for universal health care costs?” Which problem does this question suffer from?

A survey presents respondents with a series of statements and asks them to circle their level of agreement for each statement: “strongly agree; agree; neutral; disagree; strongly disagree” This series of questions uses which of the following?

Identify the following question type: “What are the goals you would like to accomplish in college?”

If a researcher uses U.S. Census data to examine changes in the number of individuals in each racial group across states over time, she is using ______

Deepa is worried about experimenter effects for her study. Which strategy should she use to defend against these effects?

What is the process that ensures that participants have an equal likelihood of being assigned to experimental or control conditions?

What is a double-blind study?

Population-based survey experiments differ from traditional surveys. In both, participants may read a description of a scenario and then answer questions about how they would react to the given situation. However, in a survey experiment, researchers____.

Dr. Thomas designs a laboratory experiment to examine how people respond to criticism differently depending on if it comes from a man or a woman. She tells participants that they are communicating electronically with another student about arts participation programs. However, the “other student” is really a computer script that steers the conversation toward personal criticism. What has Dr. Thomas used to avoid speculation and suspicion about the true purpose of the study?

What is the necessary condition to establish causality?

Which of the following statements about experiments is true?

The Devah Pager study on criminal status, race, and hiring is an example of a(n)

Because experiments can use deception and cover stories it is important for researchers to ______ participants and tell them ____.

What is a key feature of experiments?

Which of the following is an example of manipulation of the independent variable?

Dr. Martin designs a laboratory experiment to examine how people respond to unexpected rude interactions with strangers. She tells participants that they should come to the lab to fill out a survey. However, she has set it up so that one of her assistants will intentionally bump into participants as they come to the lab and say “Watch yourself!” What has Dr. Martin used to help manipulate the independent variable?

Self-reported measures (such as surveys) are more sensitive to participants’ moods and to social desirability bias, which means what?

Why might it be unreasonable to ask whether an urban housing program would eliminate all homelessness?

A9n)___ intervention is a policy implementation or change, such as introducing a new urban housing program, that is intended to modify the outcomes or behaviors of individuals or groups.

Which of the following evaluation questions is both reasonable and answerable?

What defines quasi-experimental research methods?

One of the main goals of evaluation research is translation, which means

In the ROWE intervention, Best Buy’s work teams were split into two categories. One category of work teams implemented a Results-Oriented Work Environment, in which employees could work whenever and wherever they wanted as long as they got their work done, while the second category continued work as usual. How would sociologists classify the second category?

Dr. Maron is conducting an interview study of parents’ opinions of local schools and their interactions with the administrators and teachers. He finds that respondents often refer to other parents in the school with off-handed or short remarks. When this happens, Dr. Maron often asks the parents to discuss how they know these other parents and how often they see each other. Which approach is Dr. Maron taking?

Which sampling method is MOST common for in-depth interviews?

Which of the following questions follows Howard Becker’s cardinal rule for designing interview questions?

Sue interviews medical billing specialists about how changes to health-care law will affect their work. Because they are specialists, these interviewees are considered

Which of the following is a leading question?

A good interview feels a lot like a 

Dr. Collins is conducting an interview study of how individuals decide what neighborhood to live in. She finds that respondents are reluctant to explicitly mention race so she tells a story of a few couples who move into different types of neighborhoods and how they make their decisions. She then asks her interviewees to tell her which couple is most similar to them. Which approach is Dr. Collins taking?