PSYC 2360 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
11 Mar 2012
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A survey is a series of self-report measures administered either through an interview or a written questionnaire. Interviews are when questions are read to the respondent in person or over the telephone. In an unstructured interview the interviewer talks freely with the person being interviewed about many topics. A focus group is when a number of people are interview at the same time and share ideas both with the interviewer and with each other. The structured interview uses quantitative fixed-format items and is most common questions are prepared ahead of time and interviewer reads the questions to the respondent. A questionnaire is a set of fixed-format, self-report items that is completed at their own pace, often without supervision. Us census is largest data set and the general social survey is a collection of over 1000 items given to a sample of us citizens. A representative sample is one that is approximately the same as the population in every important respect.
