Self report Flashcards
What is a questionnaire
A list of questions
What’s a study that uses a questionnaire called
survey
What’s a benefit of a survey
being able to access a lot of participants as they can be easily distributed
What are the different types of self report
- questionnaires
- interviews
- structured interviews
- unstructured interviews
- social desirability bias
What’s the difference between interviews and questionnaires
Interviews have a trained researcher asking participants face to face questions
What are the 2 types of interviews
structured
unstructured
What does a structured interview follow
researcher asks questions and notes down the responses
What does an unstructured interview follow
start with planned questions but able to follow up depending on the response given
What is social desirability bias
alter response to make themselves look good
Does it take long to complete a survey
No making it an advantage
What’s an advantage of a survey
easy to administer collect data from a large number of people
Why is a larger sample of people better
able to reflect the actual diversity of the population. Better generalisability
What’s a negative of carrying out survey’s
can’t collect the same amount of depth of information
What’s an external factor you cannot control about surveys
people don’t always give accurate responses
What data type do interviews give
qualitative data
