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In order to generate a sample of students from her institution, Julie selected every 10th name off of the registrar's alphabetical list of all students enrolled at her school. Julie is using the _____ sampling technique.
 
  a. random
  b. cluster
  c. stratified random
  d. convenience



Rich is conducting a survey of student opinion of the dining hall at his university. In order to make sure that students from each major are adequately represented he should use the _____ sampling technique.
 
  a. random
  b. cluster
  c. stratified random
  d. convenience



Rich is conducting a survey of student opinion of the dining hall at his university. Rich decided to conduct his survey using students enrolled in introductory psychology classes. The type of sampling technique that Rich is using is:
 
  a. random sampling.
  b. cluster sampling.
  c. stratified random sampling.
  d. representative sampling.



Mail surveys are to _____ are personal interviews are to _____
 
  a. good response rate; interviewer bias
  b. interviewer bias; good response rate
  c. poor response rate; interviewer bias
  d. sampling bias; poor response rate



Telephone surveys have the concern of _____ but have the advantage of _____.
 
  a. socially desirable responses; possible question clarification
  b. the poorest return rate; possible question clarification
  c. lack of question clarification; increased response rate over mail surveys
  d. interviewer bias; socially desirable responses



Of the three survey methods discussed in the text, _____ surveys tend to have the highest response rate and the _____ expense.
 
  a. mail; lowest
  b. personal interview; highest
  c. telephone; lowest
  d. personal interview; lowest



Mail surveys have the concern of _____ but have the advantage of _____.
 
  a. low return rate; eliminating interviewer bias
  b. interviewer bias; high return rate
  c. sampling bias; interviewer bias
  d. increasing socially desirable responses; high return rate



Marnie keeps answering the questions on the survey she is taking as she thinks most others in society would answer them, rather than with her true responses. Marnie's answers illustrate _____.
 
  a. interviewer bias.
  b. sampling bias.
  c. experimenter effects.
  d. socially desirable responses



A tendency for one group to be overrepresented in a study is known as _____.
 
  a. response bias.
  b. sampling bias.
  c. experimenter effects
  d. interviewer bias.



The tendency to consistently give the same answer to almost all of the items on a survey is known as _____.
 
  a. response bias.
  b. sampling bias.
  c. experimenter effects.
  d. interviewer bias.
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6 years ago
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