observations

Cards (15)

  • what are observations?
    • involve watching people and recording their behaviour to gain some insight
    • can be used in an experiment to access DV
  • what are unstructured observations:
    writing down everything you see
  • what is a structured observation?
    operationalising (simplifying the behaviour that intended to be observed) e.g behavioural categories
  • what are behavioural categories?
    Behavioural categories are groupings of specific behaviours based on common characteristics or functions.
  • what is event sampling?
    counting the number of times a particular behaviour ‘events’ occur
  • what is time sampling?
    recording behaviour with a pre-established time frame
  • what is the difference between inter-rater and intra-rater reliability?
    inter-rater
    consistency between observers
    intra-rater
    consistency for the same observer
  • what are the types of observation?
    • naturalistic
    • controlled
    • overt
    • covert
    • participant
    • non-participant
  • what does naturalistic mean?
    conducted in an everyday environment where participants behave normally
  • what does controlled mean?
    conducted in an artificial environment- may be set up e.g a two-way mirror
  • what does overt mean?
    participants know they are being studied
  • what does covert mean?
    participants don’t know they are being studied
  • what does participant mean?
    observer becomes part of the group that they are observing
  • what does non-participant mean ?
    observer takes a step back from the group
  • what does the term ‘go native mean’
    to join in with the group / become apart of the group