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Matching Quiz III
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Identify which of the descriptions best corresponds to each of the following terms.

1


This problem occurs when the person conducting the survey records only selected portions of a respondent’s answers or adjusts the wording of questions.
2


One consequence of the reactive measurement involved in survey research whereby people may feel pressure to respond as they think they “should” rather than as they actually believe.
3


The set of all cases of interest such as all the students on your campus for a survey done to determine students’ attitudes toward the campus computing facilities.
4


The representativeness of a sample can be threatened when not all the sample respondents complete the survey such as when people are too busy or not interested enough in the study to return a completed questionnaire.
5


An approach to psychological research in which researchers assess relationships among naturally occurring variables, such as the relationship between hours spent watching television and students’ test scores in school.
Answer choices for questions 1 through 5
A)social desirability
B)population
C)interviewer bias
D)correlational research
E)response bias





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