PSYC 335 Week 8 Quiz

PSYC 335 Week 8 Quiz | Los Rios Community College District Office

Quiz 8 - Survey and Correlational Research

Question 1

Survey research is most often used to    ["", "", ""]   or to    ["", "", ""]   .

Question 2

Asking people what pet they would choose if they could have any pet that they want is    

·         a closed-ended question.  

·         a questionnaire.  

·         an open-ended question.  

·         unethical.

Question 3

Compare the two items below from a (pretend) questionnaire about healthy eating and then choose the best answer about which item is better and why.

Question 4

According to your textbook, correlational research assesses the relationship between two  

·         variables.  

·         categorical variables.  

·         continuous variables.  

·         groups of people.

Question 5

Based on what you learned about survey construction from the textbook, which of the following items is the most likely to yield accurate data about individuals' alcohol consumption?

Item 1  How many alcoholic drinks do you consume on a typical night?

Question 6

What is the biggest problem with the following item?

How many times per day do you touch your face?  

·         People may not know what a face is.  

·         People may not know how many times per day they touch their face.  

·         People may not know what a day is.  

·         People may be embarrassed by how often they touch their face.

Question 7

If you have to complete a project for one of your classes and want to measure extraversion using a questionnaire that is reliable and valid, the best thing to do would be  

·         to use an existing measure that was published in a psychological journal.  

·         create a measure that includes only closed-ended questions.  

·         create a measure that includes only open-ended questions.  

·         create a measure that includes both open-ended and closed-ended questions.

Question 8

Survey research is typically conducted by  

·         using convenience samples. 

·         randomly assigning participants to two experimental conditions and comparing their responses.  

·         observing participants without their knowlegde.  

·         asking participants questions about themselves.

Question 9

A researcher is interested in knowing how worried adults in the US are about COVID-19 and about their finances. This researcher should  

·         use objective data such as unemployment rates and COVID-19 rates.  

·         conduct correlational research. 

·         conduct observational research.

·         study a random sample of all US adults.