Question 1

Researchers who have a low monetary budget are more likely to use ______ to collect survey data.&#10;A)telephone interviews&#10;B)mailed questionnaires&#10;C)personal interviews&#10;D)Internet surveys

Accepted Answer

B

Question 2

A researcher is interested in gathering detailed accounts about how many hours per day their participants spend with friends or family members.Which of the following methods would be the most useful for their data collection?

A)time diary methods
B)Internet surveys
C)mailed questionnaires
D)personal interviews

A

Accepted Answer

Time diary methods are the most useful for collecting detailed accounts of how participants spend their hours, including time spent with friends or family, as they require participants to record their activities in real-time or retrospectively in a diary format, providing detailed and specific information.

Question 3

When would a researcher most likely have an interaction of selection and treatment?&#10;A)when there are multiple treatments applied to one group&#10;B)when respondents are randomly assigned to treatment conditions&#10;C)when respondents are not randomly assigned to treatment conditions&#10;D)when respondents change their behaviors because they are in an experiment

Accepted Answer

An interaction of selection and treatment is most likely to occur when respondents are not randomly assigned to treatment conditions. This is because the way participants are selected or assigned to groups can interact with the treatment itself, potentially biasing the results. Random assignment helps to mitigate this issue by ensuring that any differences between groups are due to chance rather than systematic biases.

Question 4

It is unlikely that the instrument used for interview data collection could change over the course of the study.

Accepted Answer

The instrument used for interview data collection can change over the course of a study due to various reasons such as feedback from initial interviews, changes in research focus, or the need to clarify ambiguous questions.

Question 5

A researcher is interested in the effects of socioeconomic status and parenting styles.However, they primarily sample from exclusively low-income areas.Which threat to internal validity might this researcher be dealing with?

A)attrition
B)instrumentation
C)statistical regression
D)selection

Accepted Answer

The researcher's primary sampling from exclusively low-income areas introduces a selection threat to internal validity because the sample may not be representative of the broader population, potentially biasing the results towards the effects of socioeconomic status and parenting styles within only low-income areas.

Question 6

The dependent variable can also be referred to as the manipulation or treatment in laboratory experiments.

Accepted Answer

The dependent variable is the outcome or effect that researchers measure in an experiment, not the manipulation or treatment, which is referred to as the independent variable.

Question 7

It is common for researchers studying families to use secondary data for their studies.

Accepted Answer

Secondary data, such as census data, surveys, and previously collected research datasets, are commonly used by researchers studying families to analyze trends, behaviors, and societal changes without the need for time-consuming and expensive primary data collection.

Question 8

Anthropologists or other social science researchers interested in studying past cultures and societies are more likely to utilize ______.&#10;A)field experiments&#10;B)current surveys&#10;C)nonreactive research&#10;D)active studies

Accepted Answer

Nonreactive research is more suitable for anthropologists or social scientists studying past cultures and societies because it involves the study of historical records, artifacts, and other sources of data that do not require interaction with subjects, fitting the nature of researching societies that no longer exist.

Question 9

Newspaper articles are considered to be a part of the public running record.

Accepted Answer

Newspaper articles contribute to the public running record by documenting events, opinions, and developments as they happen, serving as a historical and informational resource for the public.

Question 10

What kind of experiment design is the least common in family and marriage research, according to the text?&#10;A)laboratory experiments&#10;B)field experiments&#10;C)quasi-experimental&#10;D)observational research

Accepted Answer

Laboratory experiments are the least common in family and marriage research due to the challenges in replicating the complex, intimate, and private nature of family and marital relationships in a controlled laboratory setting.

Question 11

The Hawthorne effect is the commonly used term to describe the ______.&#10;A)reactive effect of testing&#10;B)interaction of selection and treatment&#10;C)reactive effects of experimental arrangements&#10;D)interference of multiple treatments

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Hawthorne effect is the commonly used...

Question 12

Mailed questionnaires are able to accurately represent all communities.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Mailed questionnaires are able to accurately represent...

Question 13

One example of ______ would be if the participant responses varied based on the race of the person conducting the study.&#10;A)interviewer effects&#10;B)changes with the instrument&#10;C)the guinea pig effect&#10;D)a measurement as a change agent

Accepted Answer

The answer of One example of ______ would be if...

Question 14

Participants in a study who originally have extreme scores on a scale will tend to produce scores closer to the sample mean if they are retested.Which of the following best describes this trend?&#10;A)testing effects&#10;B)maturation&#10;C)statistical regression&#10;D)attrition

Accepted Answer

The answer of Participants in a study who originally have...

Question 15

______ are an example of &#34;active&#34; studies of children and families.&#10;A)The running record&#10;B)Field experiments&#10;C)Surveys&#10;D)Physical traces

Accepted Answer

The answer of ______ are an example of &#34;active&#34; studies...

Deck 8: Studying Families: Methods for Quantitative Data