A psychologist is designing a questionnaire to assess public attitudes towards a newly proposed high-speed railway. One section of the questionnaire presents participants with opposite pairs of adjectives, such as 'beneficial' and 'harmful', separated by a 7-point scale, and asks them to select the point that best represents their opinion.
Which of the following is the correct term for this type of rating scale?
Likert scale
Semantic differential scale
Behavioural checklist
Thematic coding scale
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.