Identify four reasons that difficult questions can lead to satisficing?
What will be an ideal response?
(a) Respondents have to work to understand a question; when motivation is low, they may not be willing to do this.
(b) Respondents have to search through memory to find relevant information, which they may not want to do.
(c) Respondents have to organize the information they recall, which also requires motivation.
(d) Respondents have to choose from among alternatives presented on a questionnaire, and they may select the first response that sounds good, without bothering to consider others.
You might also like to view...
The United States has suspected for some time that nations such as __________ might supply nuclear materials to terrorists or to nations that want to have nuclear capability
A) India and Pakistan B) Iran and North Korea C) Israel and Iran D) Pakistan and South Korea E) Syria and Iran
________ is the law in Texas that forbids candidates defeated in the primary election from filing to run as independents in the general election.
A. The "sore loser" law B. The "can't lose twice" law C. The "once bitten, twice shy" law D. Double jeopardy
Which of the following would be more important in regard to drawing lessons from history and applying them to current international events and problems?
a. a reliance on historical accounts that includes the most seemingly factual information, presented in neutral fashion b. an awareness of how greatly the world has changed over time, and that some concerns of the present, such as the role of nonstate actors and economic matters, were not concerns in earlier eras. c. an awareness of how the international, anarchic system of states is a relatively new thing, historically speaking, with almost nothing resembling it in earlier eras d. an awareness of how accounts of past international wars or incidents are influenced by the values and concerns of historians
During the Standing Rock protests, the local, state, and national governments acted on behalf of ______.
a. the protestors, i.e., they protected the Standing Rock nation from violence from the pipeline’s owners b. the pipeline’s owners, i.e., they effectively acted to undermine the protests so the pipeline could be completed quickly c. themselves, i.e., they charted an independent course between the protestors and the pipeline’s owners d. nobody, i.e., they stayed out of the controversy altogether