A Chemistry Professor Who Teaches a Large Lecture Class Surveys

question 298

Multiple Choice

A chemistry professor who teaches a large lecture class surveys his students who attend his class
About how he can make the class more interesting, hoping he can get more students to attend. This
Survey method suffers from

• A) nonresponse bias
• B) none of these
• C) response bias
• D) voluntary response bias
• E) undercoverage

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In psychology, the process through which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears as a result of the withdrawal of reinforcement.

Contingency

The relationship between two events, one being contingent or a consequence of the other's occurrence.

Contiguity

The principle stating that events occurring close together in time or space are readily associated with each other.