Conversation method

The conversation method is one of the universal methods of psychological research. This is a method of obtaining information based on verbal (verbal) communication [Вітенко, Вітенко, p.57]. The conversation is a dialectical process in which participants exchange knowledge, views, understanding, and feelings while relating everything to the contexts and contingencies of personal and political history. It can range over many subjects and can include a variety of voices. It can lead in incomprehensible directions and answer questions that have not been asked. Participants in conversations can come close to one another, "to what they know, desire, imagine and believe in" and can reveal to them their "power of the mind, good sense, and moral sentiments [Buchmann, p.23]." From a psychological point of view, the conversation is a counseling method. By purpose, conversations are psychotherapeutic, experimental, diagnostic, guided/unguided, and standardized/unrestrained [Марінушкіна, p.129]. In the structure of any conversation, four stages are distinguished: the introductory stage, the stage of general open questions, the stage of detailed discussion of the main topic of the conversation, and the final stage [Косьянова, p.56].

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