Author Question: Maryanne is conducting a large-scale survey and she is concerned that individuals in her sample ... (Read 39 times)

berenicecastro · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Maryanne is conducting a large-scale survey and she is concerned that individuals in her sample might not answer the questions truthfully, but, instead, in a way that they think is appropriate or acceptable.

It appears that Maryanne is concerned about the potential for

a. social desirability bias
b. nonresponse bias
c. interviewer bias
d. experimenter bias

Question 2

One limitation to naturalistic observation is that

a. investigators need to manipulate a large number of variables to get a good understanding of the behaviors of interest.
b. investigators cannot always tell which factor in the environment is causing behaviors to occur.
c. the research environment is usually too simplified for researchers to have confidence that the results would occur naturally.
d. investigators usually manipulate only one or two variables in a given observational study.