Exam 6: The Survey

When respondents tend to answer questions based on the context of preceding questions and the interview setting,this is called ______ effects.

People tend to ______-report having an illness or disability or engaging in illegal or deviant behavior in a survey.

Discuss the three questions that a researcher should ask in the start -up stage of the survey conduct;"Who will be the respondents?" "What information does the researcher want to learn from them?" "How can a researcher get that information?"

A(n)______ question does not offer a "don't know" choice and respondents must volunteer their lack of understanding or opinion.

What is the difference between an opinion poll and a survey?

A drawback of this particular survey method is that not everyone has a computer or internet access.This type of survey is ______.

When a researcher leads a respondent to pick one response over another,the researcher is asking what type of questions?

Most surveys offer preset answers from which a respondent chooses.The ______ feature requires that none of the response categories overlap.

Dr.Van Offer hired a new assistant to conduct a survey for him.During one of the research luncheon meetings,the new assistant starts to discuss information that respondents have given her.In particular,she tells about one respondent's sexual preferences and then accidentally gives the respondent's name.One of the other assistants is horrified because she is related to the respondent. Discuss three issues related to the ethical survey,including invasion of privacy,voluntary participation and misuse of surveys.What should Dr.Van Offer do? Are any of these issues related to lessons learned in Chapter 3?

What is the difference between an open-ended question and a closed-ended question?

A researcher faces three survey question sequence issues: how to organize,how to reduce question order effects,and how to control researcher bias.

What three questions does a researcher ask in the start-up stage?

Good closed-format surveys have three features,mutually exclusive,exhaustive,and balanced.Discuss these three features and an example of each.

An interviewer needs to control the interview and its flow of interaction.

Interviewers use probes to clarify respondents' responses.What does this mean?

A type of bias that occurs when respondents distort answers to look good or to conform to social norms is a(n)______ bias.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a mailed questionnaire?

Which of the following might interfere with a respondent's recall in a survey asking about past events?

A good survey question is one in which the respondents know which answer the researcher expects.

A respondent reacted very hostilely to a question on a Dr.Van Offer's study survey.Dr.Van Offer believes that the respondent's reaction may have impacted the answers on the whole survey.This reaction is most likely attributable to a problem with the question called ______.