Author Question: Which of the following is FALSE? a. Including a don't know option with the regular scale positions ... (Read 17 times)

beccaep · **on:** Jun 29, 2018

Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Including a don't know option with the regular scale positions for an item may add error to the study.
b. For most purposes, a minimum of 5 response categories should be included when designing measures.
c. Composite measures are more diagnostic than global measures.
d. The practice of negatively wording some items often seems to introduce a sort of negativity bias that may distort responses.
e. Measure reliability decreases as the number of scale positions are increased.

Question 2

A technique in which some of the items on a multi-item scale are written so that the most positive responses are at the opposite end of the scale from where they would normally appear is
a. comparative scaling.
b. opposition biasing.
c. haloing.
d. reverse scaling.
e. None of the above.