Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Victimless Crime, Target Australia, Discriminant Validity
5 Dec 2013
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Describing events (or the relation between events) without directly influencing events. Observational research: naturalistic observations, participant-observer research, problems and solutions. Researcher plays passive role (observes but doesn"t participate) Procedures are unobtrusive (p"s don"t now they"re being observed), and. W&m mix these up? (p. 194-195: not the same as causal or informal observations. How observations recorded (e. g. , see w&m p. 205-208: examples (p. 195-196; involve observing actual behaviours as they occur) Can also involve observing what"s left behind after a behaviour occurs ( physical trace measures p. 195) Most unobtrusive and non-reactive: physical trace measures, erosion measures (observe wear or erosion of materials). Wear of floor tiles to measure popularity of museum exhibits (live chicks very popular) Tiles in front of one particular exhibit that had to be replaced much more frequently than tiles in front of other exhibits. This exhibit is more popular than the other ones. Observed what people left behind in time.
