Interviews in Psychological Research

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  • Created on: 10-11-20 12:41
What are interpersonal variables? Provide examples.
Interpersonal variables are the personal characteristics of the interviewer that affect the way participants answer questions.
Such as gender, ethnicity, status, personality.
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What are interpersonal variables a form of?
Researcher effects
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How can the interviewers expectations influence results in an interview?
subtle cues, leading questions
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Why is the 'social interaction' nature of interviews a threat to validity?
Participants may give socially desirable answers instead of being truthful
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Outline 3 key features of good practise in interviews
-establishing rapport with the interviewee
-wording must be clear/without jargon
-leading questions should be avoided
-personal issues dealt with with sensitivity and confidentiality
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Suggest one advantage and one disadvantage of structured interviews.
advantages:
-quantitive data easy to analyse
-standardised questions-higher reliability

disadvantages:
- meaning may be lost
-reduced validity
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Suggest one advantage and one disadvantage of unstructured interviews.
advantages:
- qualitative data highly rich and detailed
-higher validity

disadvantages:
-hard to replicate which lowers reliability
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Suggest the differences in validity and reliability between structured and unstructured interviews.
Structured interviews have higher reliability and lower validity.
Unstructured interviews have higher validity and lower reliabi
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