survey

Examples of survey in the following topics:

• Surveys and Interviews

  • Surveys are a highly versatile tool in psychology.
  • Although a researcher may choose to only administer a survey to sample of individuals as their entire study, surveys are often used in experimental research as well.
  • In this case, our emotion survey is reliable, but not necessarily valid.
  • Survey samples tend to be self-selected since the the respondents must choose to complete the survey.
  • Surveys may measure either qualitative or quantitative data.

• Biases in Experimental Design: Validity, Reliability, and Other Issues

  • One example is surveys taken during a presidential election.
  • The results of the surveys often depend on the city, state, or area being surveyed.
  • Similarly, one's geographic location (the Northeast, South, Midwest, etc.) can have an impact on who is being surveyed.
  • This is because only a select few have answered the survey and participated in the experiment.
  • Similarly, an online survey about computer use is likely to attract people more interested in technology than is typical.

• Observation

  • While participants may or may not be aware of the researchers' presence, the researchers do not try to control variables (as in an experiment), or ask participants to respond to direct questions (as in an interview or survey based study).
  • These observations also capture behavior that is more natural than behavior occurring in the artificial setting of a lab and that is relatively free of some of the bias seen in survey responses.

• Psychology and the Scientific Method

  • Several types of studies exist within the scientific method—experiments, descriptive studies, case studies, surveys, and non-descriptive studies.
  • Surveys are used with large groups of people who answer questions about specific information.

• Psychology and the Scientific Method: From Theory to Conclusion

  • Several types of studies exist within the scientific method—experiments, descriptive studies, case studies, surveys, and non-descriptive studies.
  • Surveys are used with large groups of people who answer questions about specific subjects.

• Human Sexuality and Culture

  • In an international survey, 29% of Americans stated that premarital sex is always wrong, while the average among the 24 countries surveyed was 17%.

• Case Studies

  • It is different from survey research, which involves asking a group of participants questions through interviews or questionnaires.

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, the combination of anti-transgender bias with structural and individual racism means that transgender people of color experience particularly high levels of discrimination.

• Basic Inferential Statistics

  • For example, to collect a random sample of women over 30 for our study above, we may get a census list of women over 30 in the population and send a survey about income to every 10th woman on the list.