Psychology A-Level
question design
What question design means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of question design
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Reference: OCR
Open questions allow respondents to answer in their own words, yielding qualitative data, whereas closed questions restrict options, producing quantitative data for easy comparison.
Topics that use question design
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- behavioural category
- confounding variables
- Counterbalancing
- directional and non-directional hypotheses
- ethical planning
- event sampling
- experimental control
- operationalisation
Using question design in the exam
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