PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Naturalistic Observation, Operational Definition
20 May 2018
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Introduction
The Survey
• Enabling the researchers to eavesdrop on more than 10,000 half-minute life slices by
the end of the study
• On what percentage of the slices do you suppose they found the students talking with
someone?
• What percentage captured the students at a computer?
• The answers: 28 and 9 percent.
• What percentages of your waking hours are spent in these activities?
• What’s o your id?
• To find out what was on the minds of their University of Nevada, Las Vegas, students,
Christopher Heavey and Russell Hurlburt (2008) gave them beepers.
• On a half-doze oasios, a eep iterrupted studets’ daily ativities, sigalig the
to pull out a notebook and record their inner experience at that moment.
• When the researchers later coded the reports in categories, they found five common
forms of inner experience
• Culture, climate, and the pace of life
• Naturalistic observation also enabled Robert Levine and Ara Norenzayan (1999) to
compare the pace of life in 31 countries.
• Their operational definition of pace of life included walking speed, the speed with which
postal clerks completed a simple request, and the accuracy of public clocks
• Their conclusion: Life is fastest paced in Japan and Western Europe, and slower paced in
economically less-developed countries.
• People in colder climates also tend to live at a faster pace (and are more prone to die
from heart disease).
• Naturalistic observation offers interesting snapshots of everyday life
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