PSYC30800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethology, Anthropomorphism, Naturalistic Observation
10 Nov 2016
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Chapter 12: studying patterns in the natural world. Observational research: trained to record human or nonhuman behavior just as it occurs. Attempt to avoid interpretation or subjective evaluation. Systematic observation: records natural behavior as it occurs, attempts to note every behavior occurring, often in a lab as an initial stage of research, before the development of the hypotheses, does this really occur? no. Natural behaviors of animals: ethology- a researcher who studies behavior, usually of animals, in their natural environment, anthropomorphism- attribution of human characteristics (ex. Lonely animal: theromorphism- attempt to understand the behavior of animals by speculating about the behavior from the perspective of the animal, evolutionary psychology- focus is human behavior from an evolutionary stand point. Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay (youtube search) Five steps to observational research: others research, specific methods to observation, choose setting, determine sampling strategies, train the observers on data collection. Approaches to measurement: videotaping, nature and frequency of observations.
