PSYB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Construct Validity, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Sample Size Determination
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Survey and polls: a method of posing questions to people on the phone, in personal interviews, on written questionnaires, or online. Surveys, polls and questionnaires can ask about: attitudes, needs, desires, interests, behaviours, demographics, the questions themselves operationalize the variables i. e. thinking about some different topics indicate your support for: Evaluating survey questions: forced choice questions. How do you spend your time? (place values in box) Political polls which of 2/3 candidates respondents are most likely to vote for. Choosing one statement from each of 40 pairs of items. Mutually exclusive response options (no overlap: open-ended. Drawback: responses must be coded and categorized which is a difficult and time-consuming process: likert, or likert-type. Circle a number to indicate the extent to which you agree/disagree. Semantic differential format: numerical scale with adjectives. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about the childcare program.
