Chapter 05 True/False Quiz

. Operationalization generally precedes conceptualization.

. The "bonding and bridging of people with one another" is an acceptable operational definition of social capital.

. A questionnaire item measuring marital status, with the categories married, widowed, divorced, separated, or never married, constitutes ordinal-level measurement.

. Ratio-level measurement includes all the features of the other levels plus an absolute zero point.

. If a measure is reliable, then it must be valid.

. Reactive measurement effects tend to create systematic measurement error.

. Random measurement error tends to lower reliability.

. Split-half and internal consistency reliability assessments are limited to multi-item measures.

. Assessing the construct validity of a test on Chapter 5 consists of judging whether the test items are representative of the material covered in Chapter 5.

. An attitude scale that is strongly correlated with the tendency to give socially desirable answers lacks discriminant validity.

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