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4-31) In using archival data sources, sometimes important pieces of information were never established or entered into the database. This limitation is referred to as a. selective survival. b. selective deposit. c. selective erosion. d. selective accretion. 4-32) Suppose an investigator is interested in studying naturally occurring behavior in a sample of schizophrenic patients. If she decides to videotape patients’ social behavior during times of recreation, the data collection process would be making use of a. event sampling. b. archival records. c. selective survival. d. funneling. 4-33) In studying naturally occurring behavior, if researchers collect data from 1:00-2:00pm, Monday through Friday, for six consecutive months, they would be using a. selective survival. b. selective deposit. c. time sampling. d. archival data. 4-34) Miranda is working on a research project where she is counting the number of cars parked in her dorm’s parking lot and she is recording the amount of time it takes for individuals to walk from the lot to the dorm entrance. In the first case, the data would be __________ and __________, while in the second case, the data would be classified as __________ and __________. a. qualitative, discrete; quantitative, discrete b. qualitative, continuous; quantitative, continuous c. quantitative, continuous; qualitative, discrete d. quantitative, discrete; quantitative, continuous 4-35) Quantitative data for continuous variables can be classified as a. frequency data. b. duration data. c. magnitude data. d. all of the above. 4-36) Professor Whitely is conducting a study on the level of electric shock college students are willing to administer to a laboratory rat who fails to learn a bar-pressing task. Students really were not administering an actual shock, but they thought they were by selecting a button anywhere on the “shock generator” ranging in value from 10 volts up to 400 volts. In terms of quantitative, continuous variables, how would this measure be classified? a. Frequency data b. Duration data c. Magnitude data d. none of the above 4-37) Gabriella is measuring the length of time (in seconds) a lab rat drinks water following a meal generously seasoned with salt. This type of quantitative, continuous variable would best be classified as a __________ measure. a. frequency b. duration c. magnitude d. qualitative 4-38) In some archival studies, researchers are able to convert qualitative data to quantitative data by using a. content analysis. b. specially designed computing apparatus. c. a secret code known only to quantitative scientists. d. a transposing algorithm available only on the Internet. 4-39) Augustus is carrying out a research project for his research methods class. In this project, he is examining paragraphs of text written by famous politicians and examining the nature of emotional wording that is used by these politicians during times of war. If Augustus were to look at these passages in a purely descriptive sense, he would be making use of a. qualitative data. b. continuous data. c. duration data. d. magnitude data. 4-40) Which of the following would not be considered one of the four different scales of measurement? a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Interval d. Decimal