Author Question: Providing participants with instructions and using practice questions: A) are crucial components ... (Read 53 times)

MGLQZ · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Providing participants with instructions and using practice questions:

A) are crucial components of pilot studies
B) allow researchers to reduce the number of items in a multi-item survey
C) are more crucial in research with children than in research with adults
D) establish a judgmental context in survey research

Question 2

Researchers who develop multiple-item measures of a psychological construct sometimes use negatively worded items, that is, items that must be recoded before scoring. This approach is:

A) a useful technique for avoiding a yay saying response bias
B) usually a mistake because people have difficulty processing negations
C) only useful after one has exhausted a pool of positively worded questions
D) virtually never used anymore because it creates statistical artifacts