Question 1

What types of measures are especially vulnerable to social desirability response bias?

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Question 2

Describe one circumstance under which social desirability response bias would prob- ably not be a problem in research on prejudice.

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Question 3

Explain the correlational research strategy. Describe a study that uses that strategy.

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Name and define the two types of sampling most commonly used in survey research. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Question 5

What does a positive correlation coefficient indicate? What does a negative correla- tion coefficient indicate? Illustrate each with an example from research on prejudice or discrimination.

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Question 6

List the three criteria used to determine whether one variable is causing another.

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Question 7

Explain why correlation does not indicate causality.

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Question 8

Describe the experimental research strategy. How does the experimental strategy dif- fer from the correlational strategy?

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Question 9

Define independent variable and dependent variable. If a researcher hypothesizes that having one's self-esteem threatened leads to less prejudice, which is the independent variable and which is the dependent variable?

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Question 10

Explain why researchers can draw causal conclusions from the results of experiments but not from the results of correlational studies.

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Question 11

Does random assignment to conditions in an experiment guarantee that participants in the experimental conditions are similar to each other on variables that are not rel- evant to the research? Why or why not?

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Question 12

What is a laboratory experiment? List one advantage and one disadvantage of a labora- tory experiment relative to other types of research.

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What is a field experiment? List one advantage and one disadvantage of a field experi- ment relative to other types of research.

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Question 14

Distinguish between manipulated experimental variables and non-manipulated cor- relational variables within experiments. For which can causal conclusions be drawn?

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Question 15

Define ethnographic research and give an example of its use in research on prejudice or discrimination.

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Question 16

Define content analysis. List two examples of research questions that can be studied using content analysis.

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Question 17

Give one reason why a researcher would use multiple research strategies to test a hypothesis.

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Question 18

What is meta-analysis? How is it used in research on prejudice and discrimination?

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Question 19

Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative data.

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Question 20

When a researcher has quantitative data, how does she Answer the question of whether the hypothesis was supported?

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