Naturalistic Observation Report

Every day I wake up and have to go to school. I sit in a chair, moving only between class periods all day long. I listen to teachers drone on about the topics they are teaching making sure that I get the information rather than understand it. I listen and observe children behave as if they were Neanderthals, in my opinion. I guess after twelve years of an education, my question is what causes these people to act in such ways. When I am watching these people while sitting next to them, I am considered to be making a naturalistic observation because they do not know what I am doing. They just assume that I am listening to the teacher or other students talk; however, I am taking note of why they act out when the teacher is not paying attention or why they obey all the “class rules” when someone of importance to the school walks in to observe. …show more content…
Under the psychological basis of behavior there are two theories: cognitive and psychodynamic, both of which can be used to explain the reason for the people’s behavior. When these people act out in school they are reprimanded by both the school administrators and their parents at home. This experience is filtered through their mind and given a meaning: “by getting in trouble at school I can also get in trouble at home.” Afterwards their response would be not to act out again; unfortunately, this is not always the case. Sometimes they skip the filter which gives meaning to their experience, so they act out and go directly to being upset again which leads them to act out once more. The filter acts as a choice; it gives them a choice on whether to clean up their act and behave or to continue to behave in a way that gets them in trouble. Typically, they chose the poorer choice of the two. Another part of me wonders if it is the psychodynamic psychic structures that are controlling their