Lecture 4

Question 1

Interviewing is referred to as a

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Professional conversation

Question 2

The 3 different interview structures:

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Structured
Semi-structured
Unstructured

Question 3

What is the gold standard of doing an interview?

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Face-to-face

Question 4

There are two main interview techniques:

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Standardised

Qualitative

Question 5

Double hermeneutic is…

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An interpretation of someone’s interpretation

Question 6

Case studies are popular with which qual research method

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IPA

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IPA works best with which research method?

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Semi structured or structured interview MUST have a purposive sample

Question 8

What is a research interview?

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Practice of understanding other ppl by talking with them and listening to them

Question 9

Research interviews generate

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Verbatim data

Question 10

Verbatim data is data that

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Exactly what you hear is transcribed.

Question 11

When doing a research interview what is one of the challenges?

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Remembering you’re not doing therapy…you’re doing research!!

Question 12

Structured interviews questioning:

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Use same questions in the same order with each participant. With a particular response for each q. I.e. Response A

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What sort of sample do structured interviews have

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Large…ie market research

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Structured interviews also used if you have a very……….questionnaire to deliver

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Complex

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Structured interviews are commonly used with these type of participants

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Young children… Unable to complete by themselves

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What’s good about using structured interviews? 5 points

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• easy to administer
• easy replicated
• transferable results, good reliability
• simple data analysis
• lower influence for interpersonal variables

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Disadvantages for structured interviews…3 points

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• respondent constrained
• reduced richness
• info maybe distorted through poor q wording

Question 18

Semi structured questions are:

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In a set order
Prepared in advance
Usually open-ended

Question 19

Interviewer can raise aspects not anticipated by researcher in what type of interview?

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Semi-structured

Question 20

Semi structured interviews mean that you can respond in

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Natural, conversational ways, showing commitment to understanding what is important to the interviewee

Question 21

From a qual perspective which type of interviews are preferred?

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Semi and unstructured interviews

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Why are semi and unstructured interviews preferred in qual research?

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They best represent the subject through the interviewee’s eyes.

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Semi structured interviews advantages…4 points

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• can compare responses
• data analysed easily
• no topics missed
• respondents not constrained by fixed answers

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Semi structured interview disadvantages…3 points

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• some loss of flexibility for interviewer
• q wording may reduce richness
• limits to transferability

Question 25

Unstructured interviews are

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No set format Usually exploratory Useful when little is known about subject

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Unstructured interviews used particularly in

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Narrative research and ethnography ie life story interview

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Advantages of unstructured interviews...4 points

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- flexible - rich data - relaxes interviewee - should produce valid (meaningful) data

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Disadvantages of unstructured interviews...4 points

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- unsystematic - difficult data to analyse - strongly influenced by interpersonal variables - results may not be transferable

Question 29

Interviews with more than one individual is called

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Focus groups

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Online interviews

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E-interviews by instant messaging or email

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Which is the most common interview context?

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Face to face with one individual

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Two main focuses of interviews are

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Subjective account of human experience | Exploratory focus

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An important aim of interviews is to

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Reveal something important about human behaviour

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What does exploratory focus in an interview mean?

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That no assumption that all issues and ways of experiencing them are known in advance.

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Exploratory interviews focus on yielding data on

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Common understandings, opinions, meanings, attitudes, emotions/feelings

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Since first used in 1886 the interview has changed from a tool for

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Data excavation to a type of social interaction that can constitute data

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What is data excavation?

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Interview seen as a way of accessing info that resided in the participants head.

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In data excavation the info retrieved is believed to be

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Uncontaminated by research process | Not sig affected by the interviewer

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What are the 5 different types of interviews

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Narrative Active GT feminist

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Social interaction interviews as opposed to data extraction interviews are a way of

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Formulating info not collecting data

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Two issues with social interaction interviews are:

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Co-constructed data | What/how narrative

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Con-constructed data gained in interviews relies on

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Interaction between two individuals

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In a co-constructed interview the two individuals are both individuals equal in the interview?

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Yes

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Inter-view =

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Co-constructed

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What/now narrative deals with individuals

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Thoughts feelings attitudes beliefs memories (WHAT) and can be talked about in different ways (HOW)

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Important factors in what/how narrative are: (4 q's)

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What individual has been asked How it has been asked Why it has been asked Who asks

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Braun and clarkes pragmatic approach to interviewing means you need a sample between

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5-25 ppl

Question 48

DA uses what type of structured interview?

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Unstructured

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IPA uses what kind of structured interview?

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Semi-structured

Question 50

Focus groups are basically

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Group interviews

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What are the two types of focus groups?

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Moderator focus groups (most common) | Self-modulated focus groups

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Focus groups time duration

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Approx 1 hr

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Focus groups are useful for research that looks at:

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- interactions btwn participants - naturalistic communication ie story telling - shared negotiation of ideas

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Focus group advantages...first 3

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Dynamic Involves participants in research process Easy to assemble

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Focus group advantages....last 3

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Economical Rich data Good for lower literacy levels

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Focus group disadvantages...4

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- need good moderator skills - can be difficult to analyse - group processes affect data - artificial setting