Methods of data collection: self report technique

Question 1

what is data?

Answer 1

The information we collect.

Question 2

What is the self report technique?

Answer 2

when we colelct data, by asking participants to provide information about their thoughts, feeling, and behaviours.

Question 3

What are the two ways in which we can use the self report technique?

Answer 3

1. QUESTIONAIRES: Questions can be written down in advance, and participants write down responses thmselfes.
2. INTERVIEWS: When questions are asked verbally to the participants.

Question 4

What are the two types of questions?

Answer 4

Open and closed.

Question 5

What is an open question?

Answer 5

When participants are allowed to answer in their own words.

Question 6

What is a closed question?

Answer 6

When participants are given a range of fixed answers to choose from.

Question 7

what are the advantages of closed questions?

Answer 7

1. Responses are easy to count up, which means they are easier to count up and analyse, when compared to open questions.
2. quick, easy, and less confusing for participants to answer, making them more likely to participate in the study, thus making the study more representative.

Question 8

what are the cons of closed questions?

Answer 8

In closed questions, some fixed answers might nit be representative to the participants actual attitudes, which means results might nt be valid.

Researchers get less detailed information from the participants.

Question 9

What are the advantages of open questions?

Answer 9

1. In open questions, results are more representative of the participants feelings, making the study more valid.
2. open questions have more detailed answers.

Question 10

what is a structured interview?

Answer 10

If the questions are all decided ina dvance

Question 11

what is an unstructured interview?

Answer 11

If the questions arent all decided in advance.

Question 12

compare the structured interviews, to the unstructured interviews.

Answer 12

1. Structured interviews are more likely to be reliable, because all the participants get asked the same questions.
2. Unstructured interviews, enables researcher to get more information from their participants, when compared to structurd interviews.

Question 13

what are the two main problems with the self-report technique?

Answer 13

1.Personal bias : how some people think they behave, isnt actually how they behave., so their answers might not be accurate. People resppnses might not be objective.
2.social desirability bias: People might lie and give different responses in order to appear more socially acceptable and avoid negative judgement.

Question 14

Explain speed of data collection when comparing interviews VS questionaires

Answer 14

questionaires are faster and easier to distribute to participants , meaning data can be collected more easily.

Question 15

explain investigator effects when comparing interviews VS questionaires

Answer 15

With questionaires, participants are less likely to be influenced by investigator effects.

—- during interview, researcher may accidently reveal ain, which leads to demand characteristics.

Question 16

explain quality of data when comparing interviews VS questionaires

Answer 16

with interviews, researchers can often gather more detailer, higher quality data, because the researcher can make sure that all the questions are properly understood, and answered.

Question 17

explain biased sampling when comparing interviews VS questionaires

Answer 17

Interviews may lead to a less biased sample than questionaires.