Survey Research MCQ

Questions included in a questionnaire or interview schedule to help explain answers to other important questions are called as Interpretive questions

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Correct Answer: True

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___ question that is asked of only a subset of survey respondents.

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Correct Answer: Contingent

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Do you disagree that schools should not allow morning prayer?” is an example of ______.

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Correct Answer: A double negative

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The ethical question that arises most frequently for group surveys is ______.

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Correct Answer: Respondents may feel coerced to complete surveys

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A phone survey conducted with random digit dialing has all but which of the following features?

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Correct Answer: Postcard follow-ups to those who don’t answer the phone

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In-person interviewing has all of the following advantages compared to other survey designs EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: The interviewer has little effect on how the respondent answers

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If a respondent is forced to choose an answer from a list of responses, but the respondent doesn’t really know anything about the question, the person who designed the survey has not taken which of the following into consideration ______.

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Correct Answer: Floaters

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The type of survey design that is most expensive per completed survey is ______.

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Correct Answer: In-person interview

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Surveys are popular research designs because they are versatile. This means ______.

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Correct Answer: They can enhance understanding of just about any social issue

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The potential for context effects is greatest when two or more questions concern the same issue or closely related issues.

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Correct Answer: True

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Unless your focus is on major events that are unlikely to have been forgotten, limit survey questions about the past to no more than the past month.

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Correct Answer: True

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Response rates are higher for telephone surveys than with any other survey design.

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Correct Answer: False

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Floaters are people who are neutral but will choose an answer if not given a neutral response choice.

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Correct Answer: False

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The following is an example of a double-barreled question: Do you agree or disagree that taxes should be raised and that more money should go to public schools?

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Correct Answer: True

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___ survey that is accessed and responded to on the World Wide Web.

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Correct Answer: Web

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Unlabeled unipolar response options are Response choices for a survey question that use numbers to identify categories ranging from low to high (or high to low).

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Correct Answer: True

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____ Research in which information is obtained from a sample of individuals through their responses to questions about themselves or others.

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Correct Answer: Survey

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____ pretest is method of evaluating survey questions and procedures by testing them on a small sample of individuals like those to be included in the actual survey and then reviewing responses to the questions and reactions to the survey procedures.

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Correct Answer: Survey

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Split Ballot design is Unique questions or other modifications in a survey administered to randomly selected subsets of the total survey sample

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Correct Answer: True

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The tendency to “agree” with a statement just to avoid seeming disagreeable is social desirability bias

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Correct Answer: True

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The unique combination of questions created in a survey by filter questions and contingent questions is skip pattern

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Correct Answer: True

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The survey instrument containing the questions in a self-administered survey is questionnaire

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Correct Answer: True

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____ survey in which interviewers question respondents over the phone and then record their answers.

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Correct Answer: Phone

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When responses to a general or summary survey question about a topic are influenced by responses to an earlier, more specific question about that topic is whole question effects

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Correct Answer: True

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____ survey that covers a range of topics of interest to different social scientists.

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Correct Answer: Omnibus

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_____ survey that is conducted by more than one method, allowing the strengths of one survey design to compensate for the weaknesses of another and maximizing the likelihood of securing data from different types of respondents

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Correct Answer: Mixed mode

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Matrix questions are a series of____questions that concern a common theme and that have the same response choices.

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Correct Answer: Survey

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____ survey involving a mailed questionnaire to be completed by the respondent.

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Correct Answer: Mailed

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Likert item is statement followed by response choices ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”

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Correct Answer: True

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Labelled unipolar response options are Response choices for a survey question that use words to identify categories ranging from low to high (or high to low).

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Correct Answer: True

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Interview schedule is the ___ instrument containing the questions asked by the interviewer in an in-person or phone survey.

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Correct Answer: Survey

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Interactive voice response is survey in which respondents receive automated calls and answer questions by pressing numbers on their touchtone phones or speaking numbers that are interpreted by computerized voice recognition software.

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Correct Answer: True

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A survey in which an interviewer questions respondents face-to-face and records their answers is ___ interview

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Correct Answer: In Person

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Idiosyncratic Variation in responses to questions that is caused by individuals’ reactions to particular words or ideas in the question instead of by variation in the concept that the question is intended to measure.

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Correct Answer: True

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Group administered survey survey that is completed by individual respondents who are assembled in a group.

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Correct Answer: True

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A survey that is completed by individual respondents who are assembled in a group is force choice Questions

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Correct Answer: True

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Survey respondents who provide an opinion on a topic in response to a closed-ended question that does not include a “Don’t know” option, but who will choose “Don’t know” if it is available is called

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Correct Answer: Floaters

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___ survey question used to identify a subset of respondents who then are asked other questions.

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Correct Answer: Filter

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Fence sitters are Survey respondents who see themselves as being neutral on an issue and choose a middle (neutral) response that is offered

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Correct Answer: True

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___survey that is sent and answered by computer, either through e-mail or on the web

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Correct Answer: Electronic

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___Negative is a question or statement that contains two negatives, which can muddy the meaning of the question.

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Correct Answer: Double

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A single survey question that actually asks two questions but allows only one answer is ____

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Correct Answer: Double

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____ letter sent with a mailed questionnaire that explains the survey’s purpose and auspices and encourages the respondent to participate.

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Correct Answer: Cover

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When one or more survey questions influence how subsequent questions are interpreted is ___ effects

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Correct Answer: Context

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_____ is the provision of research, in which identifying information that could be used to link respondents to their responses is available only to designated research personnel for specific research needs.

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Correct Answer: Confidential

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Computer assisted telephone interview in which a questionnaire is programmed into a computer, along with relevant skip patterns, and only valid entries are allowed; incorporates the tasks of interviewing, data entry, and some data cleaning.

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Correct Answer: True

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Computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) explains the personal interview in which a laptop computer is used to display interview questions and to process responses that the interviewer types in, as well as to check that these responses fall within allowed ranges.

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Correct Answer: True

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A technique for evaluating questions in which researchers ask people test questions and then probe with follow-up questions to learn how they understood the question and what their answers mean is called ________ interview

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Correct Answer: Cognitive

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Response choices to a survey question that include a middle category and parallel responses with positive and negative valence (can be labeled or unlabeled) are called Bipolar response options.

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Correct Answer: True

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An observation in which the researcher categorizes, according to strict rules, the number of times certain behaviors occur is called

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Correct Answer: Behavior coding

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A provision of research, in which no identifying information is recorded that could be used to link respondents to their responses is called Anonymity

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Correct Answer: True

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