PSYC 3003 Week 3 Quiz - Question and Answers (LATEST)

1. Donna is in a two-part experiment. She completed a self-esteem measure one week ago and is now taking the same measure again. Which of the following problems may arise from this process? 2. When choosing a measure to use for a study, it is important to 3. Which of the following two techniques can be used to assess the internal consistency of a scale? 4. Which of the following is the best operational definition of the conceptual variable of attraction? 5. Using a very specific operational definition is important for which of the following reasons? 6. A researcher uses a fixed format self-report scale to assess peoples’ feelings about an issue using a set of items that consist of pairs of adjectives. What type of scale is being used? 7. Which of the following is a correct statement? 9. A researcher has developed a new test of “interpersonal skills.” It consists of measuring a person’s shoe size. The test shows test-retest reliability of .85. It appears that this test has and 10. Discriminant validity refers to 11. The tendency to respond in a way that makes one look favorable is called 12. Which of the following techniques can be used to reduce acquiescent responding? 13. A researcher who measures self-esteem using both a Likert scale and a behavioral measure is using the technique of 14. One of the disadvantages of free-format questions is that 15. A child who weighs 160 pounds weighs twice as much as a child who weighs 80 pounds. Which scale measures this variable? 16. Interrater reliability measures consistency. 17. Which of the following is an example of systematic error? 18. In order to better understand how individuals react to a questionnaire before using the questionnaire in a research project, the researcher may wish to 19. Measuring how many times a person bites their nails in a two-hour period is an example of 20. For both physical and psychological measurement, the lowest scale of measurement involves categorizing the stimulus into one of a number of discrete categories (e.g., brown-eyed or blue-eyed). This level of measurement is called a(n) 21. Changes in a person’s current mood, a misreading or misunderstanding of the question, and measuring individuals on different days or in different places are all likely to contribute to 22. Steve wants to measure attraction by measuring individuals’ heart rates. In this case, heart rate is the variable and attraction is the variable. 23. Of the following, which is the LEAST objective measure of construct validity? 24. A test designed to measure baseball performance skills would be said to have high predictive validity if a person who scores low on the test also 25. Which of the following best describes the Rorschach inkblot test? 26. Kappa is used 27. A conceptual variable is 28. Reliability is used to assess, whereas validity is used to assess. 29. The nomological net refers to 30. Ginelle has used a semantic differential to assess students’ favorability toward their university.