self report techniques
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- what is a self report?
- individual talking about thoughts, feelings and beliefs
- questionnaires
- self report technique
- can either be open or closed questions or both
- evaluating open question questionnaires+less chance of researcher bias - if questionnaire is anonymous, they can give their true thoughts without researcher input-lack validity - may answer in a socially desirable way to researcher
- closed questions evaluation+quantitative data so easy to analyse as a graph-produce response bias - can't give full opinions on answers
- what are interviews?
- self report technique on
- face to face or telephone
- what are the 3 interview designs?
- STRUCTURED - answering a predetermined list of questions
- UNSTRUCTURED - more relaxed conversation between friends
- SEMI STRUCTURED - in between
- structured interviews
- questions decide in advance and asked in the same order for everyone
- interviewer uses an interview schedule ( same questions asked for everyone)
- record answers by taking notes or ticking boxes on their schedule
- evaluating structured interviews+quantitative data is easy to analyse and make direct comparisons with-investigator effects may occur
- unstructured interviews
- more like a conversation with no set questions
- very little is decided in advance
- produces large amounts of qualitative data
- answers will be audio or visually recorded
- evaluating structured interviews+reduced investigator effects which increases validity+participants can justify answers-time consuming and expensive as a trained psychologist is required
- semi-structured interviews
- mostly prepared questions with additional questions asked when necessary
- typically produces rich qualitative data
- evaluating semi-structured interviews+increased validity due to encouraging participants to be honest and gain further information if required-analysing the data can be time consuming and expensive compared to structured interviews