PSYC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: User Friendly, Semantic Differential, Guttman Scale
22 Jan 2020
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Moving from notions to numbers: psychological measurement ii. Questions that allow participants to respond in their own words. Questions that require participants to respond in a specific self-report format. The difference between a disco and a dance! . Practice studies that are designed to help researchers refine their measurements or manipulations. Make it into two questions for both options. Ex. what was assumed = you have a partner, past relationships, employment. Avoid questions that do not yield any variance. Floor effects/ceiling effects - restriction of the range. Make sure your questions are relevant to everyone in your study in the same way. Write multiple questions to assess the same construct. Tap into the construct from various idiosyncratic ways do not merely repeat a question with minor changes. The problem of response style and its solution. I feel that i am a person of worth, relative to others . Ex. welfare vs. assistance to the poor.
