COMM301 Lecture 7: Observational Research
10 Jan 2017
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Quality of them, their reliability, must be established independently. Units - segmenting the stream: inclusive, yet manageable. Make sure that behavior is included in your unit. A good unit is one piece, just the behavior of interest: types of units. A sentence may have two or three thoughts: hard to unitize, you would take a sentence and just chunk it into thoughts. Grammatical: sentences, paragraphs, pages, not used often. !1: they suck because nothing will ever be the same amount of time, you miss the inclusiveness and manageability. Friday, january 6, 2017: but as duration, its good. Interactional turns: turns at talk, easy to identify, mirrors what people actually do. Thought and turns are used the most. Are you interested in sequence, or not: turns = more than one thought, thought = one thought. Categories - labeling the units: descriptive vs. functional. Descriptive: what a particular behavior is: a negative affect display in marriage con ict.
