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14 Cards in this Set
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what are the 3 types of observation? |
naturalistic controlled participant |
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what is a naturalistic observation? |
participants behaviour is recorded in their own environments |
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what is a controlled observation? |
participants behaviours recorded in a artificial situation |
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what is a participant observation? |
researchers pretends to be a participant to observe them |
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what is a strenght of a naturalistic observation? |
they have high EV because they are in their own natural environment |
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what is a weakness of a naturalistic observation? |
if they are aware that they are being watched, they may respond to demand characteristics |
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what is a strength of a controlled observation? |
they have high levels of control |
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what is a weakness of a controlled observation? |
they are likely to know that they are being observed because it is artificial |
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what is a strength of a participant observation? |
adds to the richness of data especially if they are trusted so its high in EV |
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what is a weakness of a participant observation? |
could have observer bias observing only what they want to see |
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what is a strength of event sampling? |
no behaviour is missed |
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what is a weakness of event sampling? |
difficult to record if multiple behaviors are shown at the same time |
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what is a strength of time sampling? |
less intensive as they may not be so many behaviours shown at the same time |
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what is a weakness of time sampling? |
behaviours that occur outside of the time period are not recorded so are missed |
