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1. Nonresponse bias is less of a problem in
-- Choose an answer --
a. Investigator-administered surveys
b. Self-administered surveys
2. Honesty of responses will tend to be less in
-- Choose an answer --
a. Investigator-administered surveys
b. Self-administered surveys
3. Standardizing how you administer your questionnaire and objectively scoring responses are just two ways that modeling your questionnaire after a psychological test can improve your questionnaire.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
4. Asking the same question several ways can
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a. Balance out response set biases
b. Reduce social desirability bias
5. Interviews are less vulnerable to participant and researcher bias than questionnaires.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
6. Relative to personal interviews, telephone interviews have been less vulnerable to interviewer and sampling biases.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
7. You should decide on your target population after you have developed your survey instrument.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
8. In a survey, you should probably use fixed-alternative questions rather than open-ended questions.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
9. For which of the following should you use a dichotomous question?
-- Choose an answer --
a. To determine whether someone was married
b. To determine how happy a person was in their marriage
10. Dichotomous questions can provide you with reliable data.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
11. Dichotomous items provide you with
-- Choose an answer --
a. Interval data
b. Nominal data
12. If you want power, you are better off using
-- Choose an answer --
a. Dichotomous items
b. Likert-type items
13. Essay questions are most like
-- Choose an answer --
a. Fixed-alternative questions
b. Open-ended questions
14. Relative to fixed-alternative questions, open-ended questions are more difficult for participants to answer and more difficult for researchers to score.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
15. To reduce interviewer bias and facilitate objective scoring, you should use
-- Choose an answer --
a. A structured interview with fixed-alternative questions
b. An unstructured interview with open-ended questions
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