Test Yourself
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1. Usually, researchers should survey everyone in their population.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
2. Not specifying precisely what your population is will hurt your survey´s
-- Choose an answer --
a. construct validity.
b. external validity.
3. The survey is the most commonly misused research method.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
4. Sometimes, respondents cannot give accurate answers to your questions.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
5. Without a clear hypothesis and a set of questions focused on that hypothesis, your survey results may be useless.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
6. If you want to know why people do a certain behavior, you can answer that question by asking them why they do that behavior.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
7. If you ask people how much they ate, you will get accurate answers.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
8. If you want to know what a person would do if they won the lottery, you could find out by asking them what they would do.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
9. Instead saying, "Jane is a liar," you could say, "Jane is extremely vulnerable to the social desirability bias."
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
10. Making responses anonymous will be most effective in reducing
-- Choose an answer --
a. Bias caused y obeying demand characteristics
b. Social desirability bias
11. "Nay-saying" is an example of
-- Choose an answer --
a. Following a response set.
b. Obeying demand characteristics
12. Telling a lie to make yourself look good is most like
-- Choose an answer --
a. Obeying demand characteristics
b. Social desirability bias
13. Nonresponse bias is more likely to be a big problem if you
-- Choose an answer --
a. Hand out a survey to a few classes at your school
b. Send out an e-mail survey to all the students at your school
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