Event sampling procedures

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Event sampling, also known as experience sampling: collecting data about a participants ongoing daily experiences as they unfold in their natural environment

-obtained entirely out of there artificial laboratory setting

ongoing experience: reportings on thoughts, moods states, and behaviors as they happen from moment to moment.

Exemplary experience or reconstructed experience: what most studies focus on, exemplary experience is data that is collected in some type of controlled environment

Reconstructed experience: data based upon participants accounts of their own personal experiences

Event sampling protocols take 3 forms:

interval contingent: collecting data regularly at very specific time periods

signal-contingent: prompting participants to input data at any

event-contingent: asking participants to report on specific events any time they happen

-have to be perfectly clear on what the event is