self report techniques
- Created by: Humanur
- Created on: 09-06-21 12:12
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- self report techniques
- questinares
- most common
- psychologists use these to asses thought/ feelings
- evaluation
- cost effective
- can gather large amounts of data quickly as they can distrubuted to large numbers of people
- can be completed without researcher presnt reduces effort involved
- it lends itself to statistical analysis and comparison between groups of people can be made using graphs and charts
- responses may be lies
- respondents wantto presnt themselves in positive light and this influences their answers- form of demandd characteristic called social desiarability bias
- response bias: aquiescene bias where a person agrees with items on questinnaire regardless of the content
- interviews
- structured: made of predetermined set of questions that are in fixed order
- unstructured interviews: like a converstaion, free flowing, interviwee encouraged to expand and elaborate answers
- semi structured interviews: like a job interview, a preset of question but interviewers are free to ask follow up questions
- evaluation
- structured interviews
- straight forward to replicate due to theur standardised format
- richness of data can be limited
- unstructured interviews
- more flexible
- may lead to interviewer bias analysis of data is is not straight forward
- interviewees may lie
- structured interviews
- questinares
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