CJUS 601 CJUS601 CJUS/601 Week 5 QUIZ

CJUS 601 Week 5 Quiz Question 1 Focus groups are best described by which of the following features? Question 2 Which of the following is an argument against adopting a strategy of complete participation? Question 3 Which of the following is not an advantage of a closed-ended question? Question 4 Which of the following is a common problem for field researchers taking the role of complete participant? Question 5 The cover letter for a mailed questionnaire must be: Question 6 John is a field researcher who studies social interaction within motorcycle groups. He is not an accomplished rider himself, but he is able to obtain jobs at various motorcycle shops that allow him to observe members of motorcycle groups and to socialize with them after work. He lets members think that he is a regular employee and does not mention his research role to anyone connected with the groups. His note-taking is done after hours in his own apartment. His role as a field research is that of a: Question 7 Dr. Androvka must design a survey for a local school board. The survey must include many questions about issues of concern to parents, including the educational approaches they prefer for drug prevention and sex education. It is important that the survey results be generalizable to the entire parent population in the community, but the school board does not have much money for the survey. What would be the most advantageous survey design for achieving these goals? Question 8 A fence-sitter in a survey is defined as someone who: Question 9 In a survey using a split-ballot design: Question 10 In order to reduce idiosyncratic variation, researchers should use: Question 11 Organizational guidelines for questionnaires include all of the following except: Question 12 Which of the following is false? Question 13 An anthropologist believes that hanging around at malls serves critical social functions for high school students. In order to test this hypothesis, she finds fifty high school student volunteers (half boys and half girls). She has the volunteers carry pagers and beeps them at random intervals. At these times, the students fill out a brief report about what they are doing. This is an example of: Question 14 Which of the following is not an ethical advantage of being both a participant and an observer in a field setting? Question 15 Intensive interviewing is much more costly and takes much more time than all interviewing with closed-ended questions. Why should it be used at all? Describe in your answer the distinctive characteristics of intensive interviewing and identify the research questions and situations that make it preferable.