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Survey Method in Psychology

There are certain psychological problems which if a psychologist tries to study taking a small sample then he can’t do that in a proper and scientific manner. To study such problems it is compulsory to have a large sample and must include persons from different sections of the society. To study the attitude towards child rearing practices in society, to study the pre marital sexual relationships, to study the problems generated because of drug abuse, these are some of the problems which needs a large sample that must be the representative of all the sections of the society. Therefore to study these type of problems psychologists uses survey method.

Merits and demerits of survey method:

The major merits of this method are as follows:

The major merit of this method is that using the scores for many persons can be collected in less time.
2) As persons under study belong to different sections of the society therefore the conclusions drawn from these studies have a property of generalization. In other words conclusion drawn from this method can be considered as true from many people, means survey method has high external validity.

1) This method cannot be used on infants.
2) There seems to be a contraction about validity on the data collected for any problem using this method. For example the informations collected through postal questionnaire are true; one can’t say it for sure. It might possible that the answers us given by someone else rather than the expected person. It is also possible that the person might answer only few questions rather than the complete questionnaire. Therefore it can be said that the survey method has less validity. Inspite of these demerits this method is used very much by psychologists.

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Important Points :-

In the present chapter methods of psychology and measure of central tendency are discussed. Invigilation method is also called as observation method. In this method the observer studies the behavior of the organism or person.
The case study method is used in clinical psychology to identify the symptoms of any disease and the cause responsible for it.
Generally the conversation between two or more persons for any specific cause is called as an interview.
Survey method, experimental method introspection method are the basic psychological methods.
The measure of central tendency are- Mean, Mode, Median. In the present chapter frequency distribution, linear presentation, graphical presentation, frequency polygon and histogram are discussed.

1. The meaning of frequency is:
a) Scores
b) No. of repetitions of scores
c) Multiple of scores
d) None of these

Answer :- B

2. Which of the method is not suitable for absolute frequency distribution?
a) Exclusive method
b) Inclusive method
c) Exact method
d) None of these

Answer :- D

3.) Which is the formula for range?
a) (H-L)+1
b) (H+L)-1
c) (H-L)
d) NONE OF THESE

Answer :- A

4. The symbol of size of class interval is:
a) Y
b) X
c) i
d) p

Answer :- C

5. Which of the following is a graphical method?
a) Frequency polygon
b) Histogram
c) Bar diagram
d) All the above
Answer :- ????