Self-report (techniques + design) Flashcards
What is self-report technique?
Any method in which a person is asked to state or explain their own feelings, opinions, behaviours and/or experiences related to a given topic.
What is a questionnaire?
A set of written questions used to assess a persons thoughts and/or experiences.
What is an interview?
A live encounter where one person (the interviewer) asks a set of questions to assess an interviewee’s thoughts and/or experiences. The questions may be pre-set or may develop as the interview goes on.
Name the two self-report techniques.
Questionaires
Interviews
What are the two types of questions involved in an interview?
Open and closed questions.
What are open questions?
A question which does not have a fixed range of answers and respondents are free to answer n any way that they wish.
Which type of data do open questions generate?
Qualitative data.
Positive of open questions.
Allows participants to give more detail.
Negative of open questions.
May be difficult for the researcher to analyse.
What is a closed question?
A question with a fixed number of responses. E.g yes or no or 1-10 on a scale.
What type of data do closed questions produce?
Quantitative
Positive of closed questions
Easy to analyse.
Negative of closed questions.
Lacks the depth and detail associated with open questions.
Name the three types of interview.
Structured interview
Unstructured interview
Semi-structured interview
What is a structured interview?
Made up of pre-determined questions that are asked in a fixed order. Basically a questionnaire conducted face to face or over the phone/internet in real time.