Observational Techniques
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- Created on: 29-05-20 13:53
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- Observational Techniques
- Covert
- P's behaviour is watched and recorded w/o their consent
- Overt
- P's behaviour is watched and recorded with their consent
- Non-Participant
- Researcher remains outside of the group
- Participant
- Researcher becomes a part of group to watch behaviour
- Naturalistic & Controlled
- Naturalistic
- Evaluation
- High external validity
- Lack of control makes replication difficult
- Uncontrolled extraneous variables
- Watching and recording behaviour in a setting where it would normally occur
- Evaluation
- Controlled
- Watching and recording behaviour in a structured environment
- Evaluation
- May produce findings that can't be applied to real life
- Extraneous variables may be less of a factor
- Repication is easier
- Naturalistic
- Participant and Non-Participant
- Participant
- Non-Particiant
- Covert
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