Question 1
1.5 out of 1.5 points
The process of specifying what we mean by a term is known as
Selected Answer: Conceptualization
Question 2
1.5 out of 1.5 points
The ACJS Code of Ethics stipulates that
Selected Answer: All of the above
Question 3
1.5 out of 1.5 points
When the range of responses to a question cannot be adequately anticipated, _____________
questions are preferable
Selected Answer: Open-ended
Question 4
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Obtaining informed consent may create challenges for the researcher, such as
Selected Answer:
All of the above
Question 5
1.5 out of 1.5 points
The _________ Report (1979) from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
established three basic ethical principles for the protection of human subjects.
Selected Answer: Belmont
Question 6
1.5 out of 1.5 points
A variable has measurement validity when
Selected Answer: It measures what we think it does
Question 7
1.5 out of 1.5 points
The scientific concern with validity requires that
Selected Answer: Both B and C
Question 8
1.5 out of 1.5 points
When information is gathered by researchers and there are no identifying characteristics
which would allow the researchers to match up results to individual subjects, this illustrates:
Selected Answer: anonymity
Question 9
1.5 out of 1.5 points
When a series of similar questions is used instead of one question to measure the same
concept, it is known as
Selected Answer: A scale or index
Question 10
1.5 out of 1.5 points
After a research project is completed, a vital element in maintaining openness and honesty is
that the information should be
Selected Open for review by the larger research community so that questions about
Answer: aspects of the research be submitted for public discourse.
Question 11
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Of the following violations to general ethical rules, which is the most common and most
acceptable, if properly addressed?
Selected Answer: Deception of the subjects
Question 12
1.5 out of 1.5 points
When people drink alcohol, the alcohol is absorbed into their bloodstream and is then
gradually metabolized in their liver, which may be measured to determine their 'blood
alcohol' level. This may be used as an indirect measure to validate self-reports about alcohol
consumption during a certain period of time. This is an example of ____________ validity
Selected Answer: Criterion
Question 13
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Sherman and Berk's research on police response to domestic violence was
Selected Answer: Evaluation research
Question 14
1.5 out of 1.5 points
Which of the following comes closest to describing the purpose of an IRB?
Selected Answer: to determine if adequate safeguards for protection of subjects is in place
Question 15
9 out of 9 points
Reliability and validity of research are related to one another. One of these is required for the
other to occur, but not the other way around. Which is required to produce the other? Explain.
Selected
Answer: Validity is the degree to which a measure captures what it is intended to
measure: If a measure is valid, it is true and accurate. Some measures have prima
facie validity. Other measures possess validity only for specific cases and within
strictly defined boundaries. Consider this example. Which of the following is
more valid as a measure of the physical stature of human beings. Thus, even the
validity of what appears to be the most accurate measurement can be
compromised by an inadequate or biased sampling frame. We will return to these
threats to validity after defining the second criterion for evaluating any
measurement. Reliability is the extent to which the same results are obtained each
time a measure is used. If something is a reliable measurement, then it is a
precise, consistent, and dependable one. A bathroom scale that showed an
individual having three different weights on three different occasions over a 10-
minute period would not be reliable. In the case of self-report studies of criminal
and deviant behavior, reliability refers to the ability of the procedure used, and
questions asked to generate consistent responses from the same respondents on
repeated administrations. If you do not have reliability, you do not have validity.
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