Deck 9: Surveys and Interviews

Question 1

What type of questions are on unstructured surveys?

Answer 1

Open-ended

Question 2

How can the order in which we place questions on a survey wind up biasing some responses?

Answer 2

Items at the beginning of the survey might suggest ideas to respondents about later questions.

Question 3

Provide one reason why it is often best to place demographic questions at the end of a survey.

Answer 3

Boring OR off-putting to respondents

Question 4

Why might cramming as many survey questions into a page or two be problematic?

Question 5

Why is pretesting an important part of survey construction?

Question 6

How should researchers doing in-person interviews dress?

Question 7

Which type of survey distribution has the potential to be the most dangerous for researchers?

Question 8

Why might using computer-assisted survey instruments (CASI) increase responses to survey questions?

Question 9

Why do researchers usually avoid having people who already known to each other in focus groups together?

Question 10

Why might surveys asking about individuals' behavior lack validity?

Question 11

Why do hard-to-count populations complicate surveys?

Question 12

What is the biggest drawback to using unstructured surveys?

Question 13

What is the biggest drawback to using structured surveys?

Question 14

Close-ended survey response options must be:

A) Mutually exclusive
B) Exhaustive
C) unstructured
D) Both A and B

Question 15

Including a survey item stating "Please circle the number three" is an example of a:

A) Mutually exclusive question
B) Attention check
C) Contingency question
D) Both a and b

Question 16

For most surveys, where should you place the demographic questions?

A) Beginning
B) Middle
C) End
D) Anywhere

Question 17

What types of items should we use to start a written survey?

A) Interesting but not too controversial questions
B) Demographic questions
C) Sensitive questions, to get them out of the way
D) Either A or B would be appropriate

Question 18

A set of questions in a survey with the same set of answer options is known as a _________.

A) Matrix
B) Contingency question
C) Structured question
D) Index

Question 19

A question that determines which section of the survey the respondent will see next is called a _________.

A) Contingency question
B) Matrix
C) Structured question
D) Index question

Question 20

Which type of survey distribution is best if there are questions that require the respondent to look up information?

A) Mail
B) Telephone
C) Face-to-face interview
D) All are equally effective for this

Question 21

Which type of survey distribution has the best type of response rate?

A) Telephone
B) Email
C) In-person
D) Online

Question 22

The _________ survey started in 1975 and measures adolescents' drug use and attitudes.

A) Monitoring the Future
B) National Youth Survey
C) Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring
D) Connecting People Survey

Question 23

The _________ survey started in 1976 and measures delinquent behavior.

A) Monitoring the Future
B) National Youth Survey
C) Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring
D) Connecting People Survey

Question 24

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program measures drug use by self-report and through____.

A) Criminal record checks
B) Known group validation
C) Lie scales
D) Urine samples

Question 25

Introducing questions that ask individuals about their own criminal behavior might be better if we start with ____________.

A) Contingency questions
B) Forgiving introductions
C) Beneficence
D) Test-retest

Question 26

Confidentiality and anonymity are benefits of what type of surveying method?

A) In depth interviews
B) Computer-assisted survey instruments
C) Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
D) Both B and C

Question 27

An advantage(s) of conducting in-person interviews is:

A) Ability to observe body language
B) Ability to observe actions
C) Ability to observe surroundings
D) All of the above

Question 28

What method of survey has the greatest response rate?

A) Online surveys
B) Mail surveys
C) In-person surveys
D) Telephone surveys

Question 29

The question "Were you ever incarcerated for drug use or did you go to drug court" is an example of a double-barreled question.

Question 30

Online surveys can use skip logic to manage mutually exclusive questions.

Question 31

Email surveys have better response rates than in-person surveys.

Question 32

The proliferation of cell phones have made it easier to get telephone survey responses.

Question 33

Mail surveys are the least expensive option for survey distribution.

Question 34

Computer-assisted survey instruments (CASI) can help to provide survey respondents anonymity.

Question 35

The randomized response technique (RRT) might help people feel more comfortable about self-reporting unethical or criminal behavior by having the participant flip a coin and then answer a question when the researcher is unaware of the question being answered.

Question 36

Before constructing a survey using your own measures, researchers should see if they can use or adapt a survey that has already been written.

Question 37

All existing surveys are free to use or adapt for future use by other researchers.

Question 38

What are the advantages and disadvantages to using computer-assisted survey-instruments for in-person surveys? How does this compare to using computer-assisted telephone interviewing?

Question 39

How did the increase in cell phones present challenges for conducting telephone interviews?

Question 40

What are things that researchers can do to help increase their survey response rates?

Question 41

Discuss measures that researchers can take to test for reliability of self-report data.

Question 42

__________surveys include all close-ended questions.

Question 43

A__________ determines which section the respondent will fill out next when completing a survey.

Question 44

Online surveys can utilize __________ technology to manage contingency questions.

Question 45

________ are a type of in-person interview that includes 8 to 15 people and is common in market research.

Question 46

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program measures drug use through self-report surveys and ________.

Question 47

Surveys generally perform well on _____________ but may lack ___________.

Question 48

______________ is a technique researchers can use that delivers a gentle, neutral prompt to encourage 7.respondents to elaborate on their answers.

Question 49

In addition to the risk of biasing the survey through researcher-participant interaction, three further potential drawbacks to in-person survey distribution in criminal justice are ______________, ______________, and __________________.