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Closed question - GCSE Psychology Definition

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What is Closed question?

In GCSE Psychology a Closed question is any question to which the answer is a choice between Yes/No; a or b or c etc. or a number on a rating scale. A closed question does not allow any freedom or flexibility in the way it is answered - a box is ticked or a number/letter is circled.

A closed question may use a Likert scale to offer participants more of a range of possible responses, for example: ‘On a scale of 1-7 (7 being ‘strongly disagree’), how far do you agree with the idea that national service should be re-introduced to the UK? Closed questions generate quantitative data which is easy to analyse and compare via percentages, graphs and tables.

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Claire has been teaching for 34 years, in the UK and overseas. She has taught GCSE, A-level and IB Psychology which has been a lot of fun and extremely exhausting! Claire is now a freelance Psychology teacher and content creator, producing textbooks, revision notes and (hopefully) exciting and interactive teaching materials for use in the classroom and for exam prep. Her passion (apart from Psychology of course) is roller skating and when she is not working (or watching 'Coronation Street') she can be found busting some impressive moves on her local roller rink.

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