PSYC 255 Chapter 6, 7, 8, 9 Exam 2
(Liberty University) Questions Fully
Solved 2025-2026 Edition.
survey - Answer method of posing questions through a variety of different means
open-ended questions - Answer questions that allow respondents to answer however they
want (name a public figure you look up to most)
forced-choice questions - Answer people give their opinion by picking the best of two or more
options (pick between different candidates in a political poll)
Likert scale - Answer rating scale to indicate a person's degree of agreement. (I am able to do
things as well as most other people--agree, neutral, disagree)
semantic differential format - Answer respondents are asked to rate a target object using a
subjective scale that is anchored with adjectives (ratemyprofessor.com-- Level of difficulty: show
up to pass ----> Hardest thing I've ever done)
leading question - Answer A question phrased in a way that suggests the answer that an
interviewer wants to hear (How great is the food at the ROT?)
double-barreled questions - Answer questions that attempt to cover multiple issues at once,
which tend to receive incomplete or confusing answers. (Do you agree that the second
amendment guarantees your individual right to own a gun and is just as important as your other
Constitutional rights?
negatively worded questions - Answer a question in a survey or poll that contains negatively
phrased statements, making its wording complicated or confusing and potentially weakening its
construct validity ("Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi
extermination of the Jews never happened?")
response sets - Answer nondifferentiation; type of shortcut respondents can take when
answering survey questions (responders don't take the time to answer truthfully if they don't
care or are bored with the survey)
, fence-sitting - Answer playing it safe by answering in the middle of the scale; "neutral" to
every option
socially desirable responding/faking good - Answer giving answers on a survey that make one
look better than one really is, can be out of shyness or embarrasment
faking bad - Answer Giving answers on a survey (or other self-report measure) that make one
look worse than one really is.
observational research - Answer the process of watching people or animals and systematically
recording how they behave or what they are doing
masked design - Answer observers are unaware of the conditions to which participants have
been assigned and are unaware of what the study is about
reactivity - Answer a change in behavior of study participants because they are aware they are
being watched
unobstructive observation - Answer avoid observer effect by making yourself less noticable (sit
behind one way mirror)
population - Answer entire set of people or product in which you are interested
sample - Answer smaller subset taken from the population
census - Answer study every member in the population
biased sample - Answer some members of the population of interest have a much higher
probability of being included in the sample compared to other members, unrepresentative
unbiased sample - Answer all members of the population have an equal chance of being
included in the sample, representative
convience sampling - Answer create a sample by using data from population members that are
(Liberty University) Questions Fully
Solved 2025-2026 Edition.
survey - Answer method of posing questions through a variety of different means
open-ended questions - Answer questions that allow respondents to answer however they
want (name a public figure you look up to most)
forced-choice questions - Answer people give their opinion by picking the best of two or more
options (pick between different candidates in a political poll)
Likert scale - Answer rating scale to indicate a person's degree of agreement. (I am able to do
things as well as most other people--agree, neutral, disagree)
semantic differential format - Answer respondents are asked to rate a target object using a
subjective scale that is anchored with adjectives (ratemyprofessor.com-- Level of difficulty: show
up to pass ----> Hardest thing I've ever done)
leading question - Answer A question phrased in a way that suggests the answer that an
interviewer wants to hear (How great is the food at the ROT?)
double-barreled questions - Answer questions that attempt to cover multiple issues at once,
which tend to receive incomplete or confusing answers. (Do you agree that the second
amendment guarantees your individual right to own a gun and is just as important as your other
Constitutional rights?
negatively worded questions - Answer a question in a survey or poll that contains negatively
phrased statements, making its wording complicated or confusing and potentially weakening its
construct validity ("Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you that the Nazi
extermination of the Jews never happened?")
response sets - Answer nondifferentiation; type of shortcut respondents can take when
answering survey questions (responders don't take the time to answer truthfully if they don't
care or are bored with the survey)
, fence-sitting - Answer playing it safe by answering in the middle of the scale; "neutral" to
every option
socially desirable responding/faking good - Answer giving answers on a survey that make one
look better than one really is, can be out of shyness or embarrasment
faking bad - Answer Giving answers on a survey (or other self-report measure) that make one
look worse than one really is.
observational research - Answer the process of watching people or animals and systematically
recording how they behave or what they are doing
masked design - Answer observers are unaware of the conditions to which participants have
been assigned and are unaware of what the study is about
reactivity - Answer a change in behavior of study participants because they are aware they are
being watched
unobstructive observation - Answer avoid observer effect by making yourself less noticable (sit
behind one way mirror)
population - Answer entire set of people or product in which you are interested
sample - Answer smaller subset taken from the population
census - Answer study every member in the population
biased sample - Answer some members of the population of interest have a much higher
probability of being included in the sample compared to other members, unrepresentative
unbiased sample - Answer all members of the population have an equal chance of being
included in the sample, representative
convience sampling - Answer create a sample by using data from population members that are
