PSYA01H3 CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE TEXT BOOK UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

PSYA01H3 CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE TEXT BOOK UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
1. What is a biased sample?
Correct Answer -an unfair or unequal representation of a population
2. What are wording effects?
Correct Answer -The influence of language, or wording, on people's
responses to survey questions.
3. What is a response bias
Correct Answer -a tendency for people to answer questions the way
they feel is expected
4. What is acquiescent response bias
Correct Answer -a tendency for participants to respond "yes" to ever
question regardless of their answer
5. What is socially desirable bias
Correct Answer -Participants respond in ways that would be seen as
socially acceptable to others
6. What is illusory superiority
Correct Answer -A tendency to describe out own behaviour as better
than average
7. What is a volunteer bias
Correct Answer -A bias where only a motivated fraction of a
population respond to a survey or participate in research.