Psychology Investigations

Self report strenghts:

• Information comes straight from participants and avoids bias involved with interpretations from researcher
• closed questions easy to score and analyse
• easy to replicate
• collects large amount data quickly

Self report weaknesses:

• closed questions may force people to give inaccurate responses
• open questions hard to analyse
• questions may be interpreted differently by different participants
• may be affected by social desirability bias

Observation Strengths:

• high ecological validity where participants are unaware of…