PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Naturalistic Observation, Generalised Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Anterograde Amnesia
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Systematic observation: intent to observe with hypothesis and thesis to study! Experiment: dif culty to enter a psychiatric facility! Hearing voices - 3 words: empty, hollow, thud ! Reverted back to normality" as soon as admitted! Expected to be out w/in 2 days; some took 2 months! Wrote about being a patient at psychiatric facilities! Everything they did was labelled within the context of their disorder! Describe behaviour or ndings based on themes that emerge from the data! Data are non-numerical & expressed in language & images ! Narrower questions - surveys/interviews limited questions or answers! Assign numerical values to responses & measures! Data then subjected to quantitative statistical analyses ! Used to describe & understand how people or animals in a social or cultural setting live, work, & experience the setting - looking for themes that arises out of our observations ! We may talk to participants, or simply observe!
