The Primary Way to Control for the Potential Bias Due

question 61

Multiple Choice

The primary way to control for the potential bias due to interviewer's attitudes, opinions, perceptions, etc., is through

• A) matching the backgrounds of the interviewer and interviewee.
• B) training the interviewer.
• C) recruiting interviewers with similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
• D) conducting the survey using a rigid set of procedures which the interviewers must follow.
• E) requiring the interviewer to complete the questionnaire so that it can be determined if there is a pattern between the interviewer's answers and the answers he or she secures when administering the questionnaire.

Grasp the significance and prevalence of social networking among college students.

Distinguish between instinct, drive, and incentive theories in explaining human motives.

Understand the societal and psychological consequences of ostracism and its manifestations in behavior.

Recognize the importance of delayed gratification in goal setting and persistence.

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Definitions:

Ethnography

The study of the cultural organization of behavior.

Plasticity

The brain's ability to change and adapt as a result of experience, often highlighted in discussions of learning and recovery after injury.

Developmental Science

An interdisciplinary field that studies how people grow, change, and stay the same over the course of their lives, from conception to death.

Innately Good

A philosophical and psychological concept suggesting that humans are born with a predisposition towards goodness and moral behavior.