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21 Cards in this Set
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Surveys may be used for what type of research?
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Descriptive, explanatory,and applied research
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Surveys are best suited for studies that have what as their units ofanalysis?
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Individuals |
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General population surveys and surveys of offenders tend to present whattypes of difficulties?
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Validity Error |
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The term “questionnaire” suggests a collection of a
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Answer option |
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In the interest of being unambiguous and precise, the survey questionsshould be
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clear |
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Questions that encourage respondents to answer in a particular way arecalled
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biased |
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Inexperienced researchers tend to fear that their questionnaires willlook
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too long |
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It is usually best to begin a self-administered questionnaire with
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the most interesting set ofitems
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If, on a questionnaire, a respondent is asked “what do you feel is themost important crime problem facing the police in your city today?” they arebeing asked what type of question?
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Open-ended question
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Which national survey represents targeted victims?
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National Crime Victimization Survey
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Closed ended questions are useful because they
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provide uniform responses
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What may be potential problems with the use of open-ended questions?
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Possibility of misunderstanding and researcher bias
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What is considered a problem when using self-report crime questions ingeneral population surveys?
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Social desirability
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What is considered a negative item when constructing a questionnaire?
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Drugs such as marijuana should not be legalized
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What is necessary in the construction of closed-ended questions?
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The response categories should be extensive
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Contingency questions are appropriate
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when certain questions are clearly relevant to only some of the respondents and irrelevant to others
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What is one disadvantage of the use of matrix questions?
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They do not take much thought on the part of the respondents to answer
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What has been identified as disadvantage of the use of computer-assistedinterviewing?
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It can be difficult toprint and archive a complex questionnaire used in CAI
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A mock jury is an example of a (n)
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focus group
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Focus groups are most useful when
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precise generalization to alarger population is not necessary, and when focus group participants and thelarger population they are intended to represent are relatively homogeneous
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When follow-ups are planned with mail surveys,
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the response rateincreases
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