PSY 202 Chs 6&7 Vocab Terms

a method of posing questions to people online, in personal interviews, or in written questionnaires

survey questions that allow respondents to answer in any way they like

survey questions in which people give their opinions by picking the best of two or more options

a rating scale that contains more than one item and each response value is labeled with the specific terms "strongly agree, agree... etc."

rating a target object using a numeric scale that is anchored with unique adjectives (ex. Ratemyprofessors; "Profs get F's too 1 2 3 4 5 A real gem")

questions that have wording that leads people to a particular response

a question that asks two questions in one

a question that uses a double negative to complicate a question ("it's impossible that it never happened")

a type of shortcut participants can take when filling out survey questionnaires

"yea-saying" / participants saying "strongly agree" etc. for nearly every answer in a questionnaire