A researcher wants to find out how many of the last five school days pupils ate breakfast before school. The researcher writes this questionnaire item:
"On how many of the last five school days did you eat breakfast before school?"
Explain why this item is a closed question. Explain one problem with the response options and suggest how the researcher could improve them.
139 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.2 Doing Research, covering 7.2.1 Experiments, 7.2.2 Interviews, 7.2.3 Questionnaires (Surveys), 7.2.4 Observations, 7.2.5 Case Studies, and 7.2.6 Correlations. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.