Research Methods Summary
- Created by: hlouiset
- Created on: 02-03-16 09:19
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- Self Report Techniques
- Questionnaire
- Participants are presented with a set of predetermined written questions
- Easy to compare information
- Participants can give inacurate responses
- Participants can interpret questions differently
- Structured Interview
- An interview that follows a predetermined set of questions
- No room for adaptions to fit the participants responses
- Unstructured Interview
- A flexible interview based around themes rather than fixed questions
- Allows interviewers to respond to the answers of participants
- Questionnaire
- Correlation Research
- An analysis of the relationship between co-variables
- Easy to link information in a graph
- Allows the researcher to investigate naturally occurring variables that might unethical or impractical to test experimentally
- Correlation cannot be taken to imply causation
- Correlation does not allow us to go beyond the data that is given
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