PSYC 335 Week 4 Quiz

PSYC 335 Week 4 Quiz | Los Rios Community College District Office

Question 1

Correctly choose whether each description describes a conceptual variable, an operational variable, or neither one.

Question 2

A researcher is creating a questionnaire designed to measure how much people love nature. Assuming that loving nature is a stable attribute the questionnaire should have good test-retest reliability .

Question 3

A researcher is planning a study about the relationship between self-esteem and GPA. They are trying to choose between two measures of self-esteem, the Single Item Self-Esteem Scale (see below) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem ScaleLinks to an external site.

Question 4

A researcher is conducting a sleep study in which they have participants spend the night sleeping in a lab so that they can track how much the person sleeps and use polysomnography to records their brain waves, the oxygen levels in their blood, and their heart rate and breathing.

Question 5

How satisfied someone is with their current couple relationship would probably be best measured by using a self-report measure.

Question 6

If you are studying a construct that has already been studied a lot by past researchers, it probably makes sense to    ["", ""]   because    ["", "", ""]   .

 Question 7

Measuring loneliness by asking someone how many siblings they have would create a measure that might be reliable but would probably not be valid .

Question 8

Match each variable's description with the correct level of measurement.

·         whether a student is a transfer student or not             

·         whether someone prefers cats, dogs, both, or neither             

·         ratings of physical attractiveness from 1 (not at all attractive) to 10 (extremely attractive)