Interviews Flashcards
How are interviews a method of self-report?
Someone answers questions about themselves or their opinions
How are interviews a non-experimental method?
Do not need an IV or DV
Can interviews be used alongside other methods?
Yes e.g. experiment may use interviews as a method
Why are interviews referred to as a survey?
Can be given to a large amount of people
How are interviews conducted?
Face to face or over the phone
What are structured interviews?
Everyone has set questions in a set order that can’t be changed, altered or expanded on
What are semi-structured interviews?
Some set questions, but these can be followed up by adding questions if the participant discloses
something of interest
What are unstructured interviews?
No real set questions, just a general topic area to be studied
Questions can be changed and altered as needed.
They are flexible, for example, someone
might say something interesting, so you change the next question in line with this.
What is a strength of participants receiving the same questions in structured interviews?
Standardised so the results from the interview can be repeated and tested
for reliability
What is a weakness of structured interviews?
Cannot change the questions to follow up on an interesting point so the results will be less in-depth and therefore less valid
What is a strength of unstructured interviews?
Can change the questions and add follow up
questions if the participants states something interesting so participants will
provide more detailed responses, therefore results will be more valid
Why is it a weakness that each participant receives different questions?
Not standardised so the interview can not be repeated and
therefore tested for reliability
What is a strength of interviews using closed questions?
Provides quantitative data so results can be easily analysed using a statistical test
What is a weakness of interviews in regards to time?
Time consuming so may be
harder to repeat
What is a strength of using open questions in an interview?
Gathers qualitative data which is rich in detail so the results will be more valid
