Summary PSY 291 exam 3 study guide

PSY 291 exam 3 study guide 1. RESEARCH STUDY 6.1: Professor Singh creates a survey to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester. He is teaching two classes: Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience. He writes the following questions for his survey: A. What was your favorite part of this class? B. Please rate how much you agree with the following statement using the scale below: This was one of my favorite classes all semester. 1 2 34 5 Strongly Agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree C. Which of the following is most true of you? a. I am a very serious student. b. I try only as hard as I have to. D. How easy did you feel this class was? 1 23 45 Easy Hard Which of the questions above is an example of a forced-choice question? a. Question A b. Question B c. Question C d. Question D 2. RESEARCH STUDY 6.1: Professor Singh creates a survey to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester. He is teaching two classes: Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience. He writes the following questions for his survey: A. What was your favorite part of this class? B. Please rate how much you agree with the following statement using the scale below: This was one of my favorite classes all semester. 1 2 34 5 Strongly Agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree C. Which of the following is most true of you? a. I am a very serious student. b. I try only as hard as I have to. D. How easy did you feel this class was? 1 23 45 Easy Hard Which of the questions above is an example of an open-ended question? a. Question A b. Question B c. Question Cd. Question D 3. RESEARCH STUDY 6.1: Professor Singh creates a survey to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester. He is teaching two classes: Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience. He writes the following questions for his survey: A. What was your favorite part of this class? B. Please rate how much you agree with the following statement using the scale below: This was one of my favorite classes all semester. 1 2 34 5 Strongly Agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree C. Which of the following is most true of you? a. I am a very serious student. b. I try only as hard as I have to. D. How easy did you feel this class was? 1 23 45 Easy Hard Which of the questions above is an example of a question that uses a Likert scale? a. Question A b. Question B c. Question C d. Question D 4. RESEARCH STUDY 6.1: Professor Singh creates a survey to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester. He is teaching two classes: Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience. He writes the following questions for his survey: A. What was your favorite part of this class? B. Please rate how much you agree with the following statement using the scale below: This was one of my favorite classes all semester. 1 2 34 5 Strongly Agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree C. Which of the following is most true of you? a. I am a very serious student. b. I try only as hard as I have to. D. How easy did you feel this class was? 1 23 45 Easy Hard Which of the questions above is an example of a question that uses a semantic differential scale? a. Question A b. Question B c. Question C d. Question D 5. In developing a measure of “need for cognition” (the degree to which people like thinking and problem-solving), Dr. Jonason asks his participants to rate their agreement with the followingstatement: “I frequently solve and enjoy solving crossword puzzles and Sudoku puzzles.” What is the problem with this question? a. It is a forced-choice question. b. It is a double-barreled question. c. It has a double negative. d. It is a leading question. 6. Why are double-barreled questions problematic? a. They may have poor construct validity. b. They may be too easy to answer. c. They are leading questions. d. They are too conceptual. 7. In his measure of “need for cognition” (the degree to which people like thinking and problem-solving), Dr. Jonason asks his participants to rate their agreement with the following statement: “I have never not enjoyed thinking.” What is the problem with this question? a. It is a forced-choice question. b. It is a double-barreled question. c. It has a double negative. d. It is a leading question. 8. Which of the following is the most direct way to control for question order effects? a. Give the survey questions to different groups of people. b. Prepare different versions of the survey, varying the order of the questions. c. Combine multiple questions into single questions. d. Order effects cannot be controlled for. 9. Dr. Gore is conducting a survey examining people’s opinions toward funding for collegiate athletics on his campus. He notices that several participants agree with all 12 questions. This could be an example of all of the following EXCEPT: a. a response set. b. acquiescence. c. yea-saying. d. fence sitting. 10. How do reverse-worded items address shortcuts? a. They slow down readers, making them answer more carefully. b. They give people more answer options. c. They are easier for people to read. d. They ask each question twice so the participant answers twice. 11. Which of the following increases accurate responding? a. Nay-saying response setsb. Fence sitting c. Reverse-worded questions d. Acquiescence 12. Dr. Gahan decides to create a questionnaire asking about people’s attitudes toward immigration (a socially sensitive topic). He should be most concerned about which of the following? a. People self-reporting more than they can know b. Fence sitting c. Faking bad d. Negatively worded answers 13. Dr. Paul is concerned about a fence-sitting response set when he conducts his survey. Which of the following might you recommend to decrease fence sitting? a. Using reverse-worded questions b. Using scales with an even number of response options c. Providing a “no opinion” option d. Using a Likert scale 14. Forced-choice question formats are especially good at dealing with which of the following issues? a. Fence sitting b. Faking good c. Response sets d. People self-reporting more than they can know 15. Which of the following is true when asking people questions about themselves? a. The confidence people have in their memories is not strongly related to the accuracy of their memory. b. People are very good judges of the reasons for their behavior. c. People are better able to remember vivid memories. d. If people are inaccurate in reporting their reasons for behavior, it is because they are deliberately trying to be deceptive. 16. Which of the following statements is true of observational data? a. Observational measures automatically have good construct validity. b. Observational measures cannot be used to make causal claims. c. Observational measures can be used to make frequency claims. d. Observational measures provide better information than self-report data. 17. A study by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) involved telling teachers that some of their students were “bloomers” and would achieve rapid academic success within the next year. In fact, these students were no different than any of the other students in the class. At the end of