Midterm Practice Questions- Oct29
SY280 Oct21/13
Midterm Practice Questions- Oct29 #1 Practice Question - Chapter 6 (second edition - on reserve in library)
1. Professor Duncan administered a questionnaire containing the following items: Please tell me how you feel about your supervisor's leadership style on the following three items: valuable ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ worthless easy
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ demanding
critical ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ uncritical Duncan was using a: A. B. C. D. E.
Semantic differential scale Bogardus social distance scale Thurstone scale Guttman scale Likert scale
#2 Practice Question
2. When a researcher is selecting items for a composite index, which of the following should be kept in mind? A. B. C. D. E.
each item should have face validity a composite measure should be unidimensional there should be concern about the amount of variance provided by the items all of the above are correct only A and B are correct
#3 Practice Question
3. Likert scales are designed to be _____ in measurement: A. B. C. D. E.
nominal interval ordinal ratio any of the above
#4 Practice Question
4. The following items measure the extent to which Canadians are willing to associate with extraterrestrials. 1. It's OK if my child marries an extraterrestrial. 2. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial for a friend. 3. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living on the block. 4. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living in my community. These items illustrate a: A. B. C. D. E.
Guttman scale Bogardus social distance scale Thurstone scale Likert scale none of the above
#5 Practice Question
5. T or F: If two items in an index are perfectly correlated, both of them should be eliminated from the index.
Midterm Practice Questions- Oct29 #1 Practice Question - Chapter 6 (second edition - on reserve in library)
1. Professor Duncan administered a questionnaire containing the following items: Please tell me how you feel about your supervisor's leadership style on the following three items: valuable ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ worthless easy
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ demanding
critical ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ uncritical Duncan was using a: A. B. C. D. E.
Semantic differential scale Bogardus social distance scale Thurstone scale Guttman scale Likert scale
#2 Practice Question
2. When a researcher is selecting items for a composite index, which of the following should be kept in mind? A. B. C. D. E.
each item should have face validity a composite measure should be unidimensional there should be concern about the amount of variance provided by the items all of the above are correct only A and B are correct
#3 Practice Question
3. Likert scales are designed to be _____ in measurement: A. B. C. D. E.
nominal interval ordinal ratio any of the above
#4 Practice Question
4. The following items measure the extent to which Canadians are willing to associate with extraterrestrials. 1. It's OK if my child marries an extraterrestrial. 2. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial for a friend. 3. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living on the block. 4. It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living in my community. These items illustrate a: A. B. C. D. E.
Guttman scale Bogardus social distance scale Thurstone scale Likert scale none of the above
#5 Practice Question
5. T or F: If two items in an index are perfectly correlated, both of them should be eliminated from the index.
