Unit 4 Vocabulary Exam

Producing inaccurate information that sytematically favors one outcome over other outcomes.

• Bias
• Hidden or Implicit Bias
• Loaded Question
• Sample
• Sample Survey

Limiting or confusing choices to a survey

• Choice Bias
• Parameter
• Closed Sample Survey
• Single Blind Study
• Stratified Random Sample

respondents choose from a fixed set of options, like yes/no, multple choice, rating scales

• Closed Sample Survey
• Single Blind Study
• Stratified Random Sample
• Coverage Bias
• Self-Selected Sample

Divides the population into random groups called clusters, characteristics of the individuals are unknown

• Cluster Random Sample
• Non-Response Bias
• Convenience Sample
• Choice Bias
• Parameter

Easy to reach members of a population

• Convenience Sample
• Choice Bias
• Parameter
• Closed Sample Survey
• Single Blind Study

An over- or under-representation of a portion of the population

• Coverage Bias
• Self-Selected Sample
• Double Barreled Question
• Statistic
• Open Sample Survey

These touch on more than one topic, yet allows for only one answer.

• Double Barreled Question
• Statistic
• Open Sample Survey
• Placebo Effect
• Systematic Randon Sample

Both researchers and subjects are unaware of which subjects belong to which control group

• Double Blind Study
• Cluster Random Sample
• Non-Response Bias
• Convenience Sample
• Choice Bias

Researchers impose treatment on experimental units in order to study their response

• Experiment
• Double Blind Study
• Cluster Random Sample
• Non-Response Bias
• Convenience Sample

Unconscious or automatice attitudes/associations towards someone or something

• Hidden or Implicit Bias
• Loaded Question
• Sample
• Sample Survey
• Subject