Test Yourself
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1. A population could be all the students in your research methods class.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
2. Having a nonrepresentative sample will hurt your survey´s
-- Choose an answer --
a. construct validity
b. external validity
3. The survey is the most commonly used research method.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
4. Sometimes, respondents choose not to give accurate answers to your questions.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
5. If you have some interesting questions you would like to ask, you can do good survey research without having hypotheses.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
6. You can use a survey to test a cause-effect hypothesis.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
7. If you ask people how much they studied, you will get accurate answers.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
8. If you ask people to predict their own behavior, they will give you accurate answers.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
9. Survey respondents may lie.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
10. Making responses anonymous will tend to reduce social desirability bias.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
11. Making responses anonymous will tend to reduce bias caused by following response sets.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
12. Telling a lie to make someone else feel better is most like
-- Choose an answer --
a. Obeying demand characteristics
b. Social desirability bias
13. Nonresponse bias is a problem that hurts your study´s _____ validity.
-- Choose an answer --
a. Construct
b. External
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