Ameasurement scale with five response categories ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree," which requires the respondents to indicate a degree of agreement or disagreement with each of a series of statements related to the stimulus object is called a(n)

Likert scale

Explanation:

The Likert scale is a scale which uses five or seven point to give someone an opportunity to express their agreement or disagreement with a given situation or statement. It works on a presumption that the depth of a person's opinion or attitude is linear and that can be measure by assigning a number.

Likert scale can also be used to measure other factors such as quality, importance , likelihood , frequency etc.

Examples of a Likert scale

AGREEMENT

Strongly Agree

Agree

Undecided

Disagree

Strongly Disagree

The question may be how Important is family to you these option will be given on Likert scale

Very Important

Important

Moderately Important

Slightly Important

Unimportant

The question may be how frequently do you watch TV and these options may be given on a lirket scale

FREQUENCY

Always

Often

Sometimes

Rarely

Never

answer: ‘no one should be discriminated against because he or she is not from a minority group’

because—> affirmative action means ‘a policy or program that provides opportunities for traditionally disadvantaged groups to them overcome the effects of discrimination’