Complete Test Bank Sampling And Recruitment Ch5 - Updated Test Bank | Research Methods in the Social and Health Sciences 1e by Palys by Ted Palys. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 5: Sampling and Recruitment
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the three points your text makes about sampling?
A. There is no one “best” sampling method.
B. All sampling is purposive.
C. All sampling is convenient.
D. Let’s get real.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Our Approach to Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which of the following is the best sampling method?
A. simple random sampling
B. probabilistic sampling
C. systematic sample with random start
D. There is no one “best” sampling method.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: There Is No One “Best” Sampling Method
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. In research a sample is “random” if ______.
A. simple random sampling occurs
B. every member of the population from which it is chosen has an equal likelihood of being selected
C. there is no sampling method used
D. the sample is representative of the population
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of “Random”
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Olive wants to acquire a random sample of people who attend a new play on opening night. Which of the following procedures would give her a random sample?
A. She rolls a dice and a “3” turns up. She approaches the third person in line and every 10th person thereafter.
B. Olive goes down the line and arbitrarily picks people by whim.
C. She interviews everyone who makes eye contact with her.
D. Olive lets her boyfriend choose.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Meaning of “Random”
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. A sample is ______ of some larger group when the distribution of relevant attributes in the sample mirrors the distribution of those attributes in the population.
A. representative
B. probabilistic
C. random
D. ideal
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Representativeness
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Carine would like to minimize sampling error in her research. What does she need to do?
B. utilize probabilistic techniques
C. ensure the sample is representative
D. More information is needed.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Representativeness
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. ______ are elements about which information will be gathered, and the “things” you wish to study.
A. Participants
B. Sampling frames
C. Units of analysis
D. Data points
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Units of Analysis or Sampling Elements
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Hasaan would like to know how people in Texas feel about gun ownership. What is the unit of analysis for this study?
A. Texas
B. Texas residents
C. gun ownership
D. individual person
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Units of Analysis or Sampling Elements
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. In research the universe is a theoretical aggregation of ______.
A. all possible sampling elements
B. the exact boundaries that define our sample elements
C. the sampling frame
D. the world’s population
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Universe
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. In research, population is like universe in research except it delineates ______.
A. all possible sampling elements
B. the exact boundaries that define our sample elements
C. the sampling frame
D. the world’s population
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Universe
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. A complete list of all the sampling elements of the population we wish to study is referred to as ______.
A. sampling elements
B. units of analysis
C. the sampling frame
D. representation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sampling Frame
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. If our population of interest is all students enrolled at a public university in Georgia, then what is our sampling frame?
A. a representative sample of all students who fit the description
B. a random sample of all students who fit the description
C. all students in Georgia
D. all students who fit the description
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sampling Frame
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. Why is simple random sampling the best way to identify a representative sample?
A. a representative sample of all students who fit the description
B. The sample is systematic.
C. The sample is easier to collect.
D. It minimizes sampling error.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Simple Random Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Which criteria is NOT essential for selection to be considered random?
A. nothing but chance must govern the selection process
B. Every sampling element must have an equal probability of being selected.
C. There is no sampling method used.
D. All groups must be represented equally.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Simple Random Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. ______ refers to the extent to which the sample’s characteristics deviate from those of the population.
A. Sampling error
B. Sampling frame
C. Sample deviation
D. Deviation from the norm
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sampling Error
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Jacob is interested in the opinions of all truck drivers but only places flyers at local Ford dealerships. What specific error is likely to occur?
A. sampling error
B. systematic error
C. sampling frame error
D. random error
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sampling Error
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. ______ requires a sampling frame and involves randomly sampling from the entire list each time, you begin at a randomly determined starting point, and then sample every nth element on the list.
A. Simple random sampling
B. Systematic sample with random start.
C. Disproportional stratified random sample
D. Proportional stratified random sampling
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Systematic Sample With Random Start
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Nadia wants to compare the responses of the social science majors at her university, she wants her sample to be grouped in a meaningful way so that all majors in the social sciences are represented. Which sample method should she use?
A. simple random sampling
B. systematic sample with random start.
C. stratified random sample
D. proportional stratified random sampling
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Stratified Random Sampling
Difficulty Level: Hard
19. Celeste would like to use stratified random sample in order to have a representative sample to compare science majors at her college, however, she realized that her current sample size would impair her ability to make conclusions. Which of the following is a viable option to combat this issue.
A. proportional stratified random sampling
B. systematic sample with random start.
C. multistage cluster sampling
D. disproportional stratified random sample
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Disproportional Stratified Random Sampling
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. Chris would like to conduct research on a population but does not have access to the funds to obtain a sampling frame. Which of the following is a viable option to engage in the research without a sampling framing?
A. proportional stratified random sampling
B. systematic sample with random start
C. multistage cluster sampling
D. disproportional stratified random sample
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Multistage Cluster Sampling
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. Gallup of the Gallup Poll was made famous using which sampling method?
A. proportional stratified random sampling
B. quota sampling
C. multistage cluster sampling
D. disproportional stratified random sample
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Multistage Cluster Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. ______ are involved in designing, delivering, receiving, or administering the program or service being evaluated.
A. Key data points
B. Involved participants
C. Key stakeholders
D. Key participants
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Stakeholder Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. Deviant case sampling refers to sampling who?
A. extreme cases of interest
B. dangerous populations
C. hard to reach populations
D. unpopular populations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Extreme or Deviant Case Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Krishna wants to sample people who teach PE in elementary school because of their frequent exposure to the fitness level of children. What type of sampling is this?
A. typical case sampling
B. criterion sampling
C. intensity sampling
D. disproportional stratified random sample
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Intensity Sampling
Difficulty Level: Hard
25. What type of sampling should you do if you want to find cases to disprove your results?
A. typical case sampling
B. extreme or deviant case sampling
C. intensity sampling
D. disconfirming or negative case sampling
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Disconfirming or Negative Case Sampling
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. All Sampling is purposive.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: When It Just Doesn’t Matter
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Sometimes it doesn’t matter who you sample, any humans will do.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: When It Just Doesn’t Matter
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The word random in research means the same as it does in our everyday lives.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Meaning of “Random”
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The theoretical aggregation of all possible sampling elements is called the population.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Universe
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. The sampling frame is a partial list of all the sampling elements of the population we wish to study.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sampling Frame
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Simple random sampling is the best way to identify a representative sample.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Simple Random Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Systematic error occurs when aspects of your sampling procedure act in an inconsistent way to make some sampling elements more likely to be chosen for participation than others.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sampling Error
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Some of the most common sampling strategies employed in the social and health sciences are purposive or strategic sampling procedures.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Finding the Right People: Purposive, Strategic, or Target Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Identify the key differences between universe, population, and sample.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Probabilistic Sampling: The Vocabulary
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Compare and contrast the different probabilistic sampling techniques and detail the advantages and disadvantages of the different types.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Probabilistic Sampling Techniques
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Summarize the idea of random in research. Describe how you should achieve randomness and discuss why this is important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Meaning of “Random”
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Summarize what it means to have a sampling frame. Give an example.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sampling Frame
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Describe the role of sampling to find the right people to participate in your research.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Finding the Right People: Purposive, Strategic, or Target Sampling
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Consider how research has evolved with technology (e.g., the telephone). Detail the potential to recruit and conduct research with participants with more recent technological advances.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The sampling process
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Identify a population of people you would like to research. Detail two different potential sampling strategies you may use and discuss why. Also discuss at least one strategy that you probably should not use given your population of interest.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sampling Process
Difficulty Level: Hard
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