PSY320H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Literary Digest, Sampling Error, Diminishing Returns
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A combination of structure and unstructured and shows how one"s nomological net needs revision. Scaling: a continuum from very negative to very positive attitudes. Measures can have infinite questions on one attitude object: bogardus social distance scale: Measuring attitudes towards members of social or ethnic groups that is based on the assumption that one"s liking for a group is reflected in the social distance that one finds acceptable in relationships with members of the group. There are always going to be prejudiced people. However due to social norms not every single of then would admit that they are prejudiced. People taking the scale indicate if they would willingly allow certain ethnic groups into increasingly close relationships with themselves. There would be a list of questions from i would accept close kinship by marriage to i would exclude from my country.