Methods Exam #3

Cronbach's Alpha

A correlation-based statistic called ________ is commonly used to determine internal reliability.

NOT Possible

A measure is valid but not reliable.

Divergent

Another word for discriminant validity is ________ validity.

Expectancy Effects

Another word for observer effects is ?

Cancel out measurement errors.

Asking many similar questions when trying to measure a concept is done to ?

Interrater Reliability

Dr. Ewell, a developmental psychologist, is planning on conducting a study that involves watching children play together to determine how sharing behavior occurs in same-sex friend pairs compared to opposite-sex friend pairs. Given the scenario above, Dr. Ewell decides to collect his data at a neighborhood park. He has his two research assistants pose as a married couple having a picnic. While having their picnic, they take detailed records of the sharing behavior of the children and note whether the pairs are same sex or opposite sex. Given his use of two research assistants, he must establish the ________ of their measures.

Using scales with an even number of response options.

Dr. Fletcher is concerned about a fence-sitting response set when he conducts his survey. Which of the following might you recommend to decrease fence sitting?

Fence Sitting

Forced-choice question formats are especially good at dealing with which of the following issues?

Ordinal; Interval; Ratio

How many subcategories of quantitative variables exist?

Validity

If Dr. Sheffield's measure does not actually measure pathological gambling, his measure is said to lack which of the following?

Double-Barreled

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 following statement: "I frequently solve and enjoy solving crossword puzzles and Sudoku puzzles." What is the problem with this question?

Leading Question

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: "People who think a lot are really lame." What is the problem with this question?

A study examining the intensity of pain during natural childbirth.

In which of the following studies is self-report the best data collection option?

Both involve subjective judgments.

In which of the following ways are content and face validity similar?

Number of panic attacks a patient reports.

Which of the following is NOT an example of physiological measurement?

Forced-Choice Question

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.

"Have you ever hit your relationship partner?"

Which of the following questions is most likely to result in a socially desirable answer?

Fence Sitting

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?

Content Validity

Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to his supervisor, who is also an expert in pathological gambling. His supervisor says that his measure appears to test all the components of pathological gambling, including feeling restless when attempting to stop gambling, jeopardizing jobs in order to keep gambling, and using gambling to escape from problems and a bad mood. Given this information, Dr. Sheffield's measure has evidence of which of the following?

He finds that the measure of gambling is not correlated with a measure of life satisfaction in the same two groups of people.

Dr. Sheffield has decided to test the discriminant validity of his new measure. He has a group of first-time Gamblers Anonymous (GA) attendants complete his measure and finds that they score higher than a group of people who do not attend the group. Which of the following results would provide evidence for discriminant validity?

USE

RESEARCH STUDY 5.2Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions, and it takes 20 minutes to complete.