Identify the key features of a good questionnaire item.

What will be an ideal response?


Good questionnaire items should use vocabulary that is simple, direct, and familiar to all respondents; not involve double-barreled, leading, or loaded questions; be as short as possible (20 or fewer words); present conditional information prior to the key idea; avoid potential response bias; and be checked for readability.

Psychology

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b. Only guilty people confess. c. Only innocent people confess. d. Many people, both innocent and guilty, confess.

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Al-Kindi’s approach to metaphysics placed ____ as the most important quest

a. finding Truth c. understanding God b. divine revelation d. achieving divine grace

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Research methods that depict behavior, but do not necessarily yield causal explanations, are called:

a. experimental methods. b. blind studies. c. significance tests. d. descriptive methods.

Psychology

People who have endured major trauma, such as survivors of the Los Angeles earthquake in 1994 or terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, tend to be at an increased risk of

a. becoming violent. b. having heart problems that may result in death. c. developing cancer within a year of the event. d. contracting HIV within five years of the event.

Psychology