Self report techniques Flashcards
What are two types of self-report techniques?
- Questionnaires
- Interviews
Are self report techniques an experimental way to collect information?
No, no-experimental way
What is a questionnaire?
- Set of questions
What is an interview?
- face to face real time interactions
What are open questions?
- ppts can answer any way they like
- qualitative data (non-numerical)
What are closed questions?
- ppts answer yes or no or pick between a scale (1-7)
- quantitative data
Strength of open questions?
- freedom to say what they want, more valid
- unexpected answers = deep insight
Weakness of open questions?
- Difficult to summarise due to range of responses
- harder to spot patterns with qualitative data
Sentence starters for open questions?
- Describe
- Explain
- Why
Strength of closed questions?
- easy data analysis, easier to spot patterns
- analyse and display graphically
Weakness of closed questions?
- limited answers
- might not be representative of thoughts
How can you design a questionnaire?
- avoid leading questions
- clarity - no ambiguity
- pilot study
- filler questions to distract = reduce DC
Strengths of questionnaires?
- easy + cheap
- quick to give to large group
- more likely to give personal information
- closed questions are easy to compare
Weakness of questionnaires?
- Takes a lot of time
- Only done by people who are willing to spend time
- Only people who can read and write
What are two types of interview techniques?
- structured
- unstructured
What is structured interview?
prepared questions
What is unstructured interview?
no set questions, open conversation
Strength of structured interview?
- does not need skilled interview
- easy to repeat as questions standardised
Weakness of structured interviews?
- cannot be followed up with additional questions
- investigator bias
Strengths of unstructured interview?
- more detailed information
- deeper insights
Weakness of unstructured interviews?
- need highly trained interviewer
- expensive for well trained interviewer
