Self Report Method

Question 1

What is a self report technique ?

Answer 1

Any method in which a persons is asked to state or explain their own feeling thoughts and behaviour and experiences related to a given topic

Question 2

What is a questionnaire?

Answer 2

A set of written questions used to assess a persons thoughts and experiences

Question 3

What is an interview ?

Answer 3

A live encounter where one person asks a set of questions to assess the interviewees thoughts and experiences.
Questions may be pre set ( structured interview) or question may develop as the interview goes along ( unstructured interview)

Question 4

What information does a questionnaire provide?

Answer 4

Quantitative data

Question 5

What information does an interview provide?

Answer 5

Interviews provide qualititative data

Question 6

What are the ethical considerations for conducting a self report method?

Answer 6

• informed consent
• Psychological harm
• Right to withdraw
• Anonymity
• Confidentiality

Question 7

What are the steps to designing a questionnaire?

Answer 7

• Administering who will fill the form
• Format of the questionnaire
• What questions will be involved
• What the structure is
• Are the question relevant to the topic
• Whether Specific terminology should be used
• What type of questions : closed or open / scaled questions

Question 8

A strength of using questionnaire?

Answer 8

• Gather lots of data very quickly as the test can be completed by many people at one time

Question 9

What is a weakness of using a questionnaire?

Answer 9

• Social desirability bias : people won’t be truthful in order to make them selves look good and positive in front of others due to society shaming things