PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Simple Random Sample, Apa Style, Quota Sampling
16 May 2017
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Your turn 4. 1: audrey, a senior thesis student, is interested in views on parenting. Specifically she is interested in whether moving homes a lot as a child influences trust as an adult. She has participants self-identify whether they moved as a child or not and then complete some questionnaires about trust. Later, she compares the responses of those who moved to those who did not. What type of design is she using: nonexperimental, true experimental, quasi-experimental, qualitative experimental, a researcher wants to conduct a study on college students" consciousness and study habits. To measure conscientiousness the researcher examines students" dorm rooms to see how organized the rooms are, how neat their desks appear, and how orderly they keep their closets. Which of the following biases may be a potential problem in your study: retrospective bias, participant reactivity, demand characteristics, social desirability.
