Review of a focus group interview based on a health related issue.
Review of a focus group interview based on a health related issue. (Task 2) PREPARATION Before starting preparation for a qualitative research interview, reflection on a number of factors had to be considered. The main consideration that came to light where: * Why and for what purposes the interview was being conducted for * The type of context that the interview would be conducted in * Respondent relationship * Construction of question * The structure of the interview * Interpreting the responses Purposes of Interview In resolving the first point, it was necessary to review interview techniques effectively having regarding it as not just a case of gift but rather a skill to be developed. Further thought about what made the interview different from normal conversation, for example understanding what goes on when one person systematically asks questions of another. Context of Interview The second point equipped preparation for answering the question of context of interview by seeing that there are a wide variety of context in which interviews are carried out and the purposes interviews serve between these contexts, for example as in this case a student research, apposed to a job interview. The interview development had to work out not only to impart or to obtain the necessary information required, but to do so in such a way that the participants leave the interview
Evaluation of interview.
Evaluation of interview For my interview I decided to interview someone who thought they were pregnant. While interviewing the patient there were a lot of things I felt I shouldn't have done. When I welcomed the patient into my office I didn't close the door behind them and so all the noise from outside was coming in and it was hard to hear what she was trying to say to me. There was also lack of privacy lack of confidentiality; as everyone would be able to know all about the patients problems. I wasn't very professional during the interview as I didn't wear the appropriate clothes, I just had casual, every day clothes, and I felt I should have worn something smarter. I also needed to prepare my interview a lot better as I should have wrote down questions that I was going to ask the patient, planned out better what I was going to do, and wrote down an explanation of each thing I was doing for the patient. When I was asking the patient questions I didn't speak very clearly as she wasn't able to hear me properly, and I should have explained the procedure of what I was going to do. When I was taking the patients blood pressure there was a 5 minutes silence as I didn't talk to her about anything which I could have done, I should have used more small talk e.g. weather, holidays etc. When the patient first came in I think I did quite well as I welcomed her in and tried to
Cognitive backpack essay
Cognitive Backpack Essay By: Mitchell Fox I have various skills from the cognitive backpack. Some are strengths and some are weaknesses. I will be discussing my strengths throughout this essay and I will also share a few various stories to help prove my strengths. The three skills I will be discussing my strengths about will be: Analyzing expectations, assessing opportunities and thinking long-term and previewing potential outcomes. The stories I share will precisely provide support to my strength. The first strength that I am going to asses is my ability to analyze expectations. I play a lot of competitive golf and I have to keep my expectations for myself very high. If I lowered my expectations my results would get worse. When you lower the bar of expectations you will never reach your true potential. I also have to keep my expectations realistic though. So when I go into a tournament I will have a score that I want to shoot that day. I can only control how I play and if I achieved my own expectations. If I achieve my expectations then the leader board will fall into place. This story might help explain what was just said. I am going into the Burlington High School Championship and the weather was just brutal. It was raining, super windy and extremely cold. I wanted to win that day as I had won it a couple years prior to that year. So I expected to play
Interview with a fellow student.
Interview with a fellow student. Introduction. After carrying out an interview with a fellow student, who will be referred to as interviewee or client for confidentiality reasons, I will report how their identity has impacted on their life. To do this I will need to define my own identity so that I can understand and explore difference and diversity. I will explore power and discrimination within client A's life and draw on evidence, theories and experience. During the second part of the essay I am going to analyse the interview process where I will apply communication theories. A brief analysis of my own identity would be that I am a white women aged twenty, born in Britain who is not religious. I base my class on my family so I consider myself middle class as I live alone with my mother who owns her own home and is employed in a professional and managerial role. Others may consider me not to hold a class, as I am a student. My family is very important to me and is the basis of the majority of my values. I am not married nor do I have any children. The interviewee is a white woman aged 42, born and brought up in Manchester. Who considers herself working class and from a working class family. She has two bothers a sister and three children. The interviewee was married to the father of her first two children but they separated ten years ago and are now divorced.
Job Interview Questions with analysis
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Business studies department Unit A244 Business and You Interview Question Links to Why is it appropriate to the role of retail assistant? 1. Why did you apply for the job of retail assistant at Primark? * In the job advert it asks ‘Do you have a passion for fashion?” * In the job advert it asks for “good communication skills” * In the person specification asks for “good communication skills” * This is an open question , this allows the candidate to give a detailed response on why they believe they are the most suitable candidate . This is also an opportunity for the candidate to demonstrate their communication skills. * This question is simply to answer and allows the candidate to relax into the interview , this is important because the candidate may be nervous so it is best to calm their nerves to ensure they complete the interview to the highest possible standard . * The interviewer can assess the quality of the communication skills and rank the candidates from this . This is important as when the candidate starts working at Primark they need to communicate clearly with the other members of staff and the customers . The customers needs to understand what is being said or they may get frustrated and leave , this would lead to a loss in sales . Having good communication skills is a key part of being a retail sales
Cognitive perspective
Cognitive perspective The cognitive perspective can be introduced by saying the mind is actively processing stimuli it receives and rearranging it into new forms and categories. Cognition refers to the mental processes of perception, memory reasoning and problem solving. Cognitive psychology focuses on the individual's mental processes, such as: - * Thoughts * Understanding * Ideas * Interpretations * Knowledge * Deciding * Reasoning * Planning The cognitive approach In a sense, this approach developed as a result of advances in technology and the understanding of brain function that started as a consequence of rapid expansion of knowledge triggered by Second World War. The new ways of handling vast amounts of information processing; while the training of pilots, E.G., led to advances in perception. In another sense, cognitive approach developed as a direct challenge to behaviourism. In this perspective, people's behaviour follows their thinking, while their thinking is a natural aspect of the brain. No person spearheaded the cognitive approach developed as a direct challenge to behaviourism. In this perspective, people's behaviour follows they're thinking is a natural aspect of the brain. It is said that no one has spearheaded the cognitive approach; rather than a group of people, such as Piaget and Vygotsky, Chomsky, Simon and Newell, each contributed to one or
Cognitive Psychology Memory
Nawwal Dada 12A Psychology Assessment for Miss Fletcher Psychology Unit 1 - January 2006 Cognitive Psychology Question two a) Describe the multi store model of memory. The multi-store memory model was the model which was discovered in 1968 by Atkinson and Shiffron . The aim of the study was to identify how memories are stored and if they are able to go from short term memory (which has a capacity of 7 plus or minus 2, a maximum duration of 18 seconds and an acoustic encoding) to long term memory (which has an unlimited duration and capacity and a semantic encoding) and vice versa. Their research indicate that there are three memory stores; the sensory store which take in information from the five senses attention, which is so limited i.e. the blink of and eye and transfers it to the short term memory, here the information is rehearsed to be remembered and if that information is rehearsed long enough it will be transferred to the long term memory. Between the short term and long term memory, information is able to be transferred and retrieved. Criticisms state that this is a good explanation for the storage of memories because it has much research into it however it does not take into consideration the different types of long term memories i.e. procedural and episodic. b) Outline one explanation for forgetting in short term memory. The displacement theory is a good
Cognitive development.
As children grow and develop, they are continually acquiring new skills to help them reason and solve problems. These cognitive processes enable them to learn, perceive and remember new and unfamiliar information. Developmental psychologists have been particularly interested in the study of what actually drives cognitive development since around about the 1930's. Previously it was assumed that cognitive development was a passive process. The more radical constructivist approaches of the 1950's studies challenged this assumption and questioned whether or not humans have a pre-programmed genetic blueprint of the stages involved in mental development throughout childhood. A particularly influential theorist in early studies of cognitive development was a psychologist named Jean Piaget. Initially studying his own children but then moving onto clinical studies of sample groups, Piaget used a system of question and answer techniques to assess how children of different ages solved a variety of problems. Piaget defined intelligence as a basic life function that helps an organism to adapt to its environment. He believed that the purpose of intelligence was to provide a state of equilibrium between an individual's thought processes and the environment. He termed this cognitive equilibrium (Piaget, 1950). Piaget believed that children are active explorers or little scientists as they
Cognitive psychology.
Marc Barron November 30, 2003 Period 3 Cognitive psychology as a science began in 1879, with the establishment of the first psychology laboratory by Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany. The method of inquiry was mainly by introspection. But, the introspection approach ran into trouble in Europe, for different laboratories were reporting different types of introspection, giving rise to contradictions. The irrelevance of the introspection method and its apparent contradiction set the ground for the great behaviorist revolution in American psychology. According to this, psychology was entirely concerned with external behaviors, not the analysis of the mind underlying the behavior. Thus, it all but eliminated cognitive psychology for 40 years. Introspection is the process of "looking inward" and examining one's self and one's own actions in order to gain insight. This was a central component to the early days of psychology during the Structuralist period. Wundt and other psychologists had people introspect and then report on their feelings and thoughts. Even though dependent on a conscious experience, introspection can provide us with valuable insights into studied phenomena. Many researches argue that individual introspections about what is determining his or her behavior are often inaccurate. They may be limited in scope, due to lack of conscious
Exploring the genre and style of the Political Interview - Paxman and Galloway interview
Exploring the genre and style of the Political Interview Introduction Politics is an area in society which is accepted as an important aspect of our lives. It governs our country and, as a result, affects how we conduct our everyday affairs. Since the commercial availability of television, politicians have had the opportunity to express party views, promote their manifesto and justify controversial actions. Live interviews have allowed the nation to put forward questions they want answered, significantly progressing the basis on who we decide to vote for to govern our country. These interviews are perhaps most notable on Newsnight, hosted by Jeremy Paxman. Paxman became a presenter of Newsnight in 1989 and has since been a pioneer in the interrogative style used to unnerve his interviewees. This topic is of particular interest due to the nature of the interaction between a representative of the audience (the interviewer) and the politician. In many cases, it is evident that politicians adopt a tactful stance when answering questions in order to prevent perceptions and retain popularity. Interviews often gain entertainment value when questions are put forward that place the interviewee in a difficult stance, and more so when an attempt is made to divert the topic to suit the interviewees position. This is a typical method used in order to gain control of conversation, and
