Questionaires

Question 0

What is a closed ended question?

Answer 0

A question with a limited amount of answers

Question 1

What is a self report questionnaire?

Answer 1

Where the participant fills the questionnaire by themselves

Question 2

What data does a closed ended question give you?

Answer 2

Quantitative data

Question 3

What data does a open ended question give you?

Answer 3

Qualitative data

Question 4

What is the advantage and disadvantage of qualitative data?

Answer 4

You get detailed answers, but they’re harder to analyse

Question 5

What is the advantage and disadvantage of quantitative data?

Answer 5

It’s easy to analyse, but your answers aren’t as detailed

Question 6

What type if questions should you avoid?

Answer 6

Leading questions and questions that ask two things at once

Question 7

What are standardised instructions and what should they tell participants?

Answer 7

Standardised means that all participants should get the same instructions. It should include ethical issues like confidentiality and say that they can leave blank spaces or stop altogether

Question 8

Give four advantages of a questionnaire

Answer 8

1 data can be produced relatively quickly and cheaply
2 sensitive information can be gathered, because it’s confidential
3 large quantities of data can be gathered, because once produced can be given to a large sample size
4 useful as follow up research to certain experiments to gain views on feelings and motivation

Question 9

Give 4 disadvantages to a questionnaire

Answer 9

1 there can be a low response and those who do respond probably won’t be representative to the target population and you get sample bias as they are all the same type of people
2 it’s a lengthy and skilled process as you can have problems with biased questions
3 sociability desirability bias- people answer in a way that casts them in a good light
4 because of the limitations above it’s hard to conclude that something has caused the effect observed