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... , 44 American Association for Public Opinion Research, 69, 153 American Stat ist ical Associat ion, 69, 153 Anchoring and adjustment, 10, 12, 85-86 Ancillary information, 16 Antonyms, 109 Attitude questions, 14, 16, 35, 36, 87-89, ~ 12 Attitudes, 4, 91 nonattitudes, 87-~8 symbol ic and instrumental, 37 well-formed, 88-89 Attitude scaling techni ques, 90, ~6 Availability heuristic, 85, 122, ~ 24-25 Bias, ~ 7, 65, 86, 9 ~ See also Record checks. 171 Bottom-up processing, 76-77 Bounded recal l , 32 , 119 Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2 Bureau of Social Science Research, 2, 149 Categorized words task, 50 Census Bureau, 2, 3, 21, 150, 152 Central processor, 103-4 Chicago, University of, 35, 37 Choice models, 89-90 Closed-format questions, 105, 113-15 Cognitive abilities new investigation methods, 9 proposed survey topics, 6-7, 44-60 See also Comprehension, Judgment, Memory.
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... filters, 115-16 Economic and Social Research Council, 69 Economic beliefs survey, 7 Education levels, and response quality, 115 Elimination-by-aspects model, 90 Emotional experiences survey, 7 Emotions emotional events, memory or, 83 response effects or, 36-37 Encoding specificity, 80, 104, 112 Episodic memory, 45, 49, 79-80, 104, 124 Errors, 4, 1 1 match errors, 134-36 offsetting errors, 143-44 reduction strategies, 13-20 sources of See Response types of., 103 Estimates over- and underestimation, 121-23 past and future behavioral est imates for self and others, 65-68 preliminary estimates (anchors) , 10, 12, 85-86 probability estimates, ~ 6 t ime and frequency judgments, 10, 35, 37, ~ 19-25 Estimation strategies, 16 Ethnographic studies, 21 Examples, to clarify questions, ~ 3-14, 15 Factual questions, 86, 87 Fatigue effects, 18 Filters, 1 15-16 Floaters, ~ ~ 5- ~ 6 Forewarning of interview content, 15, 83 Forgetting, 81-82, 92-93, 137, 142-44 Form-resistant correlations, 115
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... 1e, ~ 18 matching respondent script, ~ 2, ~9 ordinary conversations, comparison, ~ ~ presence of other persons, 9, 19, 20, ~ 18-19 validation interviews, 8, 20 Judgment, 2, 84-89 frequency judgments, 35, 66-68, 85-87, 119-25 improvement strategies, 15-17 proposed research on, 9-10 Judgmental heuristics, 12, 85-86, 124-25 Justice Statistics, Bureau of,, 2 37, Landmark events, 15, 123-24 Lie scales, 16, 20 Lon&;-term memory, 45, 49, 79, 80, 103, 104 Luce choice rule, 89-90 Management and Budget, Of rice of, Match errors, 134-36 Max Planck Society, 69 Medical services reporting biases, 137-42 utilization or, 21-22 Memory aids (cues) 4, 15, 82-83, tO4, 105, 111, 114, 118 as associative network, 80 definitions and types of, 45, 79-80 distribution of memory abilities, 5, 44, 52 episodic memory, 45, 49, 79-80, 104, 124 forgetting, 81-82, 92-93, 137, 142-44 memorable events, 83-84 national and personal history intersection, 7, 25, 38-43, 123-24
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... questions, 14, 16, 35, 36, 8? -89, 112 Optimism, 93 Oral presentation, 78-79 Overreporting, 119, 144 Paired-a~sociate tasks, 50 Part-net cuing, 13 Personal history national history relationship, 7, 25, 38-43 survey question order, 14 Practice effects, 121 Presentation mode, 78-79 Primacy effects, 42 Primary memory, 45 Prior knowledge, 77 Proactive inhibition, 14 Probability estimates, 16 Protocol analysis, 12, 20, 61-64 Proper respondents, 33, 66-68 Question order affective carryover effects, 36-37 as interpretive context, ~ 4, 78, 116-~8 interviewer discretion to determine, 17 and organization of memory, 5, 9, 12, 14, 19 and proactive inhibit ion, ~ 4
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... 3- 1 6 Response effects/errors, 1l, 13-17, 71-72, 101-29 conceptual model, ~ O 1-3 contextual meaning and, ~16-19 of emotions, 36-37 human information processing, model, 1 03-5 perceptions of confidentiality and, 33-34
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... , 70, 153 Spacing effects, 121, 122, 125 Split-ballot studies, 20, 21, 36, 106 Squish effects, 123 Stereotypes, BB Stores, ~ 06 Strength models, 124 Survey bias Gee Record checks. Survey methodology cognitive sciences, collaboration efforts, 1-2, 24, 69-70 improvement strategies, 10-2 laboratory-based research on 26-34 research methods of, as distinguished from cognitive sciences 4, 6, 26-27, 31, 91-92, 106 Survey Research Center, 154 Surveys as cognitive experiments, 7-8 methodological research component, 1 1 proposed research areas, 8-10 proposed surveys on cognitive abilities, 6-7 reliability assessments, 1 1 See al so Interviews.
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  • improvement strategies
  • social research
  • protocol analysis

  • response categories
  • memory aids
  • personal history
  • question order
  • proposed research

  • episodic memory
  • cognitive sciences
  • conceptual model
  • recall tests
  • affective carryover

  • research methods
  • national history
  • opinion research
  • semantic memory
  • carryover effects

  • probability estimates
  • offsetting errors
  • reporting biases
  • medical services
  • match errors

  • history relationship
  • fur demoskopie
  • factual questions
  • reduction strategies
  • information integration


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