PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Consistency, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Blood Pressure
4 Dec 2014
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Can report about feelings, emotions, desires, beliefs, private. Dichotomous: forced choice; y or n, t or f. Likert rating: several response items, level of endorsement, rate agreement of scale (variability, popular, getting into their personality: unstructured: responses are not set. Open ended questions: giving people more liberties to what and how much they say. 20 statement test = completing the phrase i am . Require coding schemes for classifying the response they obtain. Pros and cons of structured vs no structured. Can be quite valuable depending on what they want to know. May be forced to choose something that is not quite representative of their true personality compromising the accuracy of the data collected. Not going to be able to develop a mean because the data is going to be quite different. Honesty in a response: people may not want to admit to certain behaviour"s depending on who is going to read.
