Palys Verified Test Bank Ch.10 Interviews - Updated Test Bank | Research Methods in the Social and Health Sciences 1e by Palys by Ted Palys. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 10: Interviews
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Before you begin an interview you should consider all the following issues EXCEPT ______.
A. technology
B. appropriate setting
C. participant comfort
D. self-presentation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Before You Begin
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to your textbook, which of the following are the two final questions you should ask before starting an interview.
A. (1) Do they consent to the interview? and (2) Do they need anything before you get started?
B. (1) Do they consent to the interview? and (2) Do you have their permission to record the interview?
C. (1) Do they need anything before you get started? and (2) Do you have their permission to record the interview?
D. (1) Do they consent to the interview? and (2) Do they have any questions?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Getting Started
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. ______ are straightforward questions that are useful in describing your sample and potentially also help you make distinctions within your sample that can be useful in your analysis.
A. Background/demographic questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Knowledge questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. ______ ask the interviewee to describe overt actions and events that you might have seen had you been there to observe it.
A. Sensory questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Knowledge questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. ______ ask the respondent to reflect on the topic at hand in terms of their own values, goals and priorities.
A. Sensory questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Knowledge questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. ______ refer to what the respondent considers to be the facts, which may or may not be what is literally true
A. Sensory questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Knowledge questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. ______ try and get at respondents’ emotional responses to events or whatever phenomenon you are asking about.
A. Sensory questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Feeling questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. ______ involve what the participant saw, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled.
A. Sensory questions
B. Experience/behavior questions
C. Opinion/values questions
D. Knowledge questions
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. ______ involves the researcher asserting minimal control over the interview process and providing much leeway for the respondent to take the conversation in directions that are most meaningful to them.
A. Unstructured interviewing
B. Structured interviewing
C. Rapport interviewing
D. Probing interviewing
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Kaitlin wants to interview new mothers about breast feeding; however, she is still exploring the topic and unsure about the “right questions.” What level of structure should this interview have?
A. unstructured interviewing
B. structured interviewing
C. rapport interviewing
D. semi-structured interviewing
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Rashad wants all interview participants to answer the same questions, however, he wants the question wording and flow of the interview to be flexible. What is the best interview structure for Rashad?
A. unstructured interviewing
B. structured interviewing
C. rapport interviewing
D. semi-structured interviewing
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Hard
12. ______ involves the researcher preparing a predetermined set of questions for the participant to answer during an interview.
A. Unstructured interviewing
B. Structured interviewing
C. Rapport interviewing
D. Semi-structured interviewing
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Which interview structure is likely to have an interview schedule?
A. unstructured interviewing
B. structured interviewing
C. rapport interviewing
D. semi-structured interviewing
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. ______ involves simply repeating or paraphrasing the last thing the respondent said to you and then asking them to continue with their story.
A. Echo probe
B. The tell-me-more probe
C. Asking for clarification probe
D. Paraphrasing probe
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Probes
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Eden is interviewing a participant who states “everything is everything” which is a statement unfamiliar to Eden. Which probe should Eden use to understand what this means?
A. echo probe
B. the tell-me-more probe
C. asking for clarification probe
D. asking for examples probe
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Probes
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. Alexis is interviewing a student who says, “professors overestimate student ability”. What probe should Alexis use to get more relevant information?
A. echo probe
B. the tell-me-more probe
C. asking for clarification probe
D. asking for examples probe
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Probes
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. Renee wants to ask sensitive questions about sexual activity to participants. What should she do first before asking the sensitive questions?
A. transcribe the interview
B. probe participants
C. build rapport
D. highlight differences
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sensitive or Threatening Questions
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. ______ consists of the interviewer repeating the participant’s words onto a speech-to-word program by listening to a slowed down recorded interview through headphones.
A. Transcribing
B. Verbal transcribing
C. Oral transcription
D. Shadow speaking
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Transcribing
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. ______ involves the researcher bringing together groups of anywhere from five to a dozen people to be interviewed together.
A. Focus group interviews
B. Group interviews
C. Collective interviews
D. Multi-interviews
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus Group Interviews
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Which of the following is not a focus group context discussed by Kruger?
A. public/non-profit context
B. academic context
C. marketing context
D. political context
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: When Are Focus Groups Useful?
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. Ben wants to know what Mississippi residents want to see in a political candidate, he hires a research agency and they form a focus to gather information. What style of focus group is this?
B. academic context
C. marketing context
D. political context
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Marketing Context
Difficulty Level: Hard
22. ______ context requires researchers to be transparent about research objectives, methods, recruitment strategies, and results as part of the analysis and dissemination of the research.
A. Public/nonprofit context
B. Academic context
C. Marketing context
D. Political context
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Academic Context
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. ______ has both a depth of analysis and a marketing concern driving their research.
A. Public/nonprofit context
B. Academic context
C. Marketing context
D. Political context
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Academic Context
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. ______ is a way to deal with the imbalance of written history.
A. Restorative history
B. Oral history
C. Selective deposit
D. Selective archiving
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rectifying the Imbalance of Written History
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. ______ refers to the higher likelihood that some histories are more likely to be recorded than others.
A. Historical inequalities
B. Historical imbalance
C. Selective deposit
D. Selective archiving
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What’s in the Box?
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Prospective participants want to know about researchers as well.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Self-Presentation
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Interviews can be conducted on WhatsApp.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Interviewing Online
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. It is difficult to distinguish between knowledge and experience questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. There’s overlap between sensory and behavior questions.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do You Ask?
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Sometimes, when a participant has given a preliminary response, the best response is to say nothing.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Probes
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Text files are harder to deal with than audio files.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Transcribing
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Focus group interviews are never formed to brainstorm ideas.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus Group Interviews
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Focus groups are useful in the following contexts: marketing, academic, and public/nonprofit.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focus Group Interviews
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Compare and contrast surveys and interviews. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each technique.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Comparing Surveys and Interviews
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Compare and contrast the different levels of structure that interviews may have and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different options.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Structured?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Summarize the idea of probes and discuss how the probes should be used in interviewing. Also discuss the different types of probing.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Probes
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Summarize the steps of a one-one-one personal interview detailing the process from beginning to end.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The One-on-One Personal Interview
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Identify the key elements of focus group interviews and discuss when they are useful.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Focus Group Interviews
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. You are working for a marketing company hired to evaluate viewer responses to a pilot episode of a sitcom featuring an Asian American family. Discuss how you will interview participants including a discussion of the technology, setting, self-presentation, questions you will ask, level of structure, potential probes, cultural considerations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The One-on-One Personal Interview | Focus Group Interviews
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Consider the potential for sensitive or threatening questions in interviewing and discuss how to navigate these types of questions. Also discuss any relevant considerations that may be relevant to the perceptions of questions as sensitive or threatening.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sensitive or Threatening Questions
Difficulty Level: Hard
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