Chapter 10

Matching Quiz

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. This type of question has a fixed set of response alternatives.
2. This type of question requires considerable effort from respondents and interviewers.
3. This type of question assumes that respondents project their feelings and opinions onto others.
4. A series of responses ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”
5. It is better to build up the respondent’s interest and trust before asking this type of question.
6. This is an example: “Did you file federal and state income tax returns last year?”
7. This is an example: “Are you concerned about the growing menace of military-style, semi-automatic assault weapons?”
8. A series of questions that moves from a very general question to progressively more specific questions.
9. The development of an accounting scheme for formulating questions to find out the basis of people’s decisions.
10. The tendency to give answers that project a favorable self-image.
11. A question that applies to some respondents and not to others.
12. Laboratory pretesting techniques designed to reveal the thought processes involved in answering survey questions.
13. A field pretesting technique that identifies the frequency of problematic respondent and interviewer behaviors.