Overview
Aspects of an interview.
What is a way to collect qualitative data in a verbal, question and answer focused way? Interviewing is a unique way to research or interpret a subjects thoughts?
The 4 characteristics of an Interview.
What is Conversation, the generation of verbal data in interview transcripts, flexibility and openness, and an emphasis on subjective meaning and experience?
Unstructured interviews.
What is the interviewer will begin with a few broad questions to start the discussion then whatever the participant takes it as they continue the discussion?
Interviews that gives insight to different psychological phenomenons.
What is Interviews allow first hand information to come through in order to understand human behaviors. Flexibility in interviews can provide flexibility so subjective experiences can shine through?
Low reliability as a con.
What is the idea of low reliability between interviews is a con because of inconsistencies between interviewers. Although the lack of standardization limits the reliability, it positively affects validity in allowing more depth to individual interviews?
This makes interviewing an effective way to collect data.
What is offering the researcher flexibility to learn what they can from a subject?
This is the most important characteristic that sets apart interviews from other forms of Qualitative research methods.
What is Conversation is a central feature?
Advantage and disadvantage of unstructured interviews.
What is an advantage that guides the participant’s perspective so they can answer however they want and what is a disadvantage is that the reliability and control of the questions is lost because the interviewer is not following a script?
Collective viewpoints.
What is because every interview is not the same, emergent themes shine through which let a researcher can look further into a research topic. A psychological phenomena can be better understood from collective viewpoints?
So, as we know, there are times when the experimental results needs to be broadened in order for the data to be relevant to other groups of people. Name this con.
What is, generalized, to make inferences about the data and conclusions in order to specify to other groups which, in turn, causes the experiment to lose credibility because there is the chance that the inferences could be wrong based on the number of possible differences between them and the sampling group?
Accomplishments and advantages to an interview.
What are the abilities to search deeper into the minds of our subjects and get information that numbers would not be able to capture?
When a participant is interviewed, it is more important to understand their experience as it is thought to generate more relevant data... describes this type of characteristic.
What is an emphasis on subjective meaning and experience?
Semi-structured interviewing.
What is semi structured interviews ask questions that are generated from a more thematic aspect more than a set of fixed questions. Due to this quality, the researchers have more flexibility in asking questions that develop during the interview. A few key questions are prepared and are followed by detailed ones that are created by the researcher’s flexibility to explore the interviewee’s responses?
Surveys.
What is Surveys can validate the same questions from interviews but in quantitative form. They usually have two main features which are sampling from a large population and self-report data which is in the form of interviews or questionnaires?
This con relies on one’s personal judgement.
What is bias! A major con because researchers could be affected by demeanor, tone, gender, age, social class, or a number of other things. The interviewers must take into account their personal biases and think about how it affects their influences on the data?
Limitation to an interview.
What are the limited ways to get accurate information from consistent questioning, as well as trying to mitigate subjective answers?
Less structured interviews allow for deeper thought and discussion about the themes of certain aspects in research and psychology in general..this statement describes this type of characteristic.
What is flexibility and openness?
Generally recommended with this type of interviewing.
What is recommended that a highly-skilled researcher completes this process because there is a potential risk of bias. These highly-skilled researchers are also flexible enough to preserve the validity of the study?
Transcripts.
What is Like surveys, they can provide a continuation of analysis of data. Future scientists can read over the transcripts and analyze further?
And finally, lets talk about self-reports.
What is interviews collecting data through verbal data. Verbal data is known for lacking in validity and reliability, as self-reflections are usually not accurate?
One important component of interviews.
What is interviews are in a question-and-answer format?
Interview transcripts take in this.
What is verbal data?
Focus group interviews.
What is focus group interviews are focused more on a group of people rather than each individual person. The group is presented with an open-ended question and they have to answer that question and give their opinions within the group, which is more or less a guided discussion?
Sensitive topics.
What is Through unstructured and semi-structured interviews. These interviews let participants to trust the interviewer and answer questions honestly?
A considerable amount of these two aspects are necessary in research interviews.
What are, skill and training, both important and required aspects before researchers will be able to conduct an effective interview?