Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
Third Edition
Web Exercises
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Web Exercises
1. Go to https://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm#pinterpersonal
This website contains links to 371 web-based experiments, surveys, and other social psychology studies.
- Browse the titles of the various online surveys that are being used for research.
- Select one or two topics that are of interest to you.
- Read through the consent form and complete one of the online surveys.
- Review 8.3 Rules for Writing Survey Items in your textbook.
- Does the researcher follow each of the rules?
- How could questions be revised to meet each of the rules?
2. Imagine you are interested in conducting a survey to investigate the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and perceptions of body image.
- Conduct a brief online search of research in this area.
- Conduct brief naturalistic observations of social media posts.
- Construct a 15 to 20 question survey and rating scale points.
- Why did you create the questions you did?
- What was challenging about this exercise?
- If you were really conducting the study, how would you administer the survey?
- Why?
3. Take the survey you constructed in Exercise 2 (or create a new survey if you’d like) and search for a free online survey builder (e.g., SurveyMonkey).
- Using the items of your survey, create an online survey.
- What are unique considerations that arise when constructing an online survey?
- What are advantages of an online survey?
- What are disadvantages of an online survey?