Primary Methods: Research Methods
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 15-05-15 10:02
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- Primary Methods : Research Methods
- Interviews
- Asking people questions and writing down their responses
- Questions may be the same for everyone (structural or formal)
- But it depends on how people respond (Semi-Structured)
- Or they can Vary (Unstructured or Informal)
- But it depends on how people respond (Semi-Structured)
- Questions may be Open-ended or closed
- Group interviews, may be done where the respondents are likely to be nervous
- Such as in Schools
- But there is a danger of peer pressure so may be invalid
- Interviews with a regular group at regular interviews to see how they have progressed is longitudinal.
- Observation
- Watching, listening to and recording people's behavior
- Can be done overtly or covert
- Listening to conversations and absorb general impressions of attitudes, motives and interactions over a long period, even years
- Watching, listening to and recording people's behavior
- Experiments
- Setting up an artificial situation
- Creating a hypothesis
- The experimental group is subjected to a stimulus and it's behavior is watched and compared with that of a control group
- Field experiments are conducted in environments where the participants are already situated, such as hospital or streets, so they are unlikely to be aware of the study
- Laboratory experiments entail researchers inviting volunteers to a prearranged setting where conditions may be easier to control
- Th Hawthorn Effect : if someone is aware that they are being watched then they are more likely to be proactive because someone is taking an interest
- Interviews
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