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  1. Return to Approaches to Social Research 6e Student Resources

Chapter 05 True/False Quiz

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. Operationalization generally precedes conceptualization.

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. The "bonding and bridging of people with one another" is an acceptable operational definition of social capital.

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. A questionnaire item measuring marital status, with the categories married, widowed, divorced, separated, or never married, constitutes ordinal-level measurement.

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. Ratio-level measurement includes all the features of the other levels plus an absolute zero point.

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. If a measure is reliable, then it must be valid.

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. Reactive measurement effects tend to create systematic measurement error.

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. Random measurement error tends to lower reliability.

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. Split-half and internal consistency reliability assessments are limited to multi-item measures.

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. Assessing the construct validity of a test on Chapter 5 consists of judging whether the test items are representative of the material covered in Chapter 5.

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. An attitude scale that is strongly correlated with the tendency to give socially desirable answers lacks discriminant validity.

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