Structured interview
What Structured interview means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The same fixed questions are asked in the same order, giving consistent, comparable answers that are easy to analyse but limit follow-up.
An interview that uses a predetermined set of questions in a fixed order, making it easy to replicate but lacking flexibility.
Topics that use Structured interview
- Research methods (AQA GCSE)
- Designing psychological research (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Alternative hypothesis
- Counterbalancing
- Dependent variable
- Extraneous variables
- Independent variable
- Null hypothesis
- Operationalisation of variables
- Qualitative data
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