self reporting methods 2.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? PsychologySenses of selfASOCR Created by: zahraCreated on: 05-11-12 18:08 questionarres list of standardized set of questions given to respondent answers in writing closed:limited/easier to analyse/normally quantitative/multiple choice answers/restricted open:you can write anything/qualitative/unlimited/free will/hard to analyse strengths: lots of questions are administrated quick,cost efficient,less time consuming easy to get a range of participants in certain population completed privately if they wanted easily made anaoymous:honest and valid results weaknesses: low response time hard to generalise results to target population only some respond(response bias) questions misinterpreted(invalid data) people influences by social desirability(put down what makes them look good)-invalid data 1 of 4 interviews asked orally structured:determined questions unstructured:questions are a response to answers given.like a conversation.needs a trained interviewer strengths: closed questions give quantitative data.easy to analyse and compare open questions give rich qualitve data with detail and depth weaknesses: time consuming to administer participants influenced by desirability-say what makes them look good need trained interviwer for unstructured interviews unstructured questions give qualitative data.its difficult to analyse .interpretation can be biased 2 of 4 qualitative and quantitative data quantitative: numerical data easy to analyse processed by statistical data(sometimes) easier to compare to people and groups(the results) lacks detail-superficial qualitative: in words rich in detail can analyse in depth hard to analyse difficult to compare with people/groups 3 of 4 ways of administrating data face to face in a public or private place talk to group in public setting postage Internet over the phone 4 of 4
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