Self-Reports | Psychology Hacked

Designing and conducting questionnaires and interviews, considering researcher effects.
Primary and secondary data.
Unstructured, semi-structured and structured interviews, open, closed (including ranked scale) questions.

State one open question that could be asked in your questionnaire. (1) June 2016
State one closed question that could be asked in your questionnaire. (1) June 2016
State one open question that Rendi could ask in her interviews about obedience. (1) October 2017
State one closed question that Rendi could use in her questionnaire about obedience. (1) October 2017
Define what is meant by ‘secondary data’. (1) January 2018
Suggest one reason why a structured interview may increase the reliability of Helen’s research into crowd behaviour in the park. (1) January 2018
Define what is meant by ‘quantitative data’. (1) June 2018
Name the type of data Marco used to begin his research. (1) January 2019
Define what is meant by ‘primary data’. (1) January 2020

Explain one weakness of Rendi using quantitative data about obedience. (2) October 2017
Give two differences between primary and secondary data. (2)
Explain one strength of using questionnaires in your practical. (2) June 2016
Give two reasons why Kaleb used standardised questions in his study. (2) January 2017
Explain how Rendi could use secondary data to improve the reliability of her research into obedience. (2) October 2017

Describe how the researchers could gather qualitative data about why the students attended the meeting. (3) January 2020

Explain one strength and one weakness of using secondary data in psychological research. (4) January 2018
Explain one strength and one weakness of gathering qualitative data in Michelle’s research. (4) June 2018