Obesrvation

Obesrvation

1. Watching PP's behavior with out asking them.

   • Can be used to mesuer the DV in an experiment

2. Weekness

   • Observer bias
     • interprate behavor how they want.
   • Obeserver effects
     • Demand characticits
   • Dont know why poeple act like they do

3. Strenghts

   • Good eco vadility
     • Natrle behaviour in natrle setting
     • genralise to the real world
   • more flexible

4. Covet

   • PP's don't know
     • no concent
     • only take place in pubilc
   • Weekness
     • Less ethical
       • Haven't given concent
     • Invation of privacy
   • Strengths
     • Reduces observer effects
     • High eco V
       • act natrley
     • high vadility

5. Controled

   • Controle certain varibles
     • usaly a stimulas
   • some control over extrenuous and confounding V's
   • Dosen't need to be in an artifical envoriment
   • Strenghts
     • Esaly replicated
     • Reliable
     • Control of CV and EV
       • High vadility
   • Weekness
     • Poor eco V
       • in a controled envoriment
         • cannot genralise

6. Natural

   • Carried out in a natural envoiment
   • Weekness
     • Hard to replicate
     • Less control over confounding and extrenous vearibles
     • Varied envoriment
       • low reliablility
   • Strenghts
     • High eco vadility
       • can genralise

7. Unstrechued

   • Resarcher records EVERYTHING THEY SEE
   • Qualitiative
   • Small groups or poilet study
   • Strenghs
     • Qualitiv data, rich in data.
       • Inceases vadility
     • More flexible
       • not held down by Behavior groups
   • Weekness
     • Lacks quantitive data
       • Harder to analyse teands in behavior
     • Incease observer bias

8. PP

   • OBSERVER TAKES PART
   • Weekness
     • Lack objectivity
       • We get carried away in the moment
         • Recuses vadlity
   • Strenghts
     • More insight
     • High vadility

9. Overt

   • PP are awhere
     • Informed concent

10. Non PP

    • OBSERVER DOSEN'T TAKE PART
    • OTHER WAY AROUND FOR NON PP

11. Strucured

    • Target behaviors and put into grops and chechlists
    • Behavior groups
      • NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OBSERVING
    • Quantitive data
    • REVERSE IT

12. Sampleling

    • Continuos recording
      • Record all the way through
    • Time
      • Record for x amount of x, then rest for x,x.
      • Strengths
        • Less observation, less eye catching events
      • Weekness
        • May miss behavior
          • Less valid
    • Event
      • List all events in a study
      • Strenghts
        • Less lickely to miss events
      • Weekness
        • Can focus to hard on events
          • Less representitive