Observing Behaviour
People do observation in daily life context for safety or f or proper behaviour. However, there are differences in daily-life observation and research observation.
A. Differences
—daily life observation
-casual
-(1)______
-dependence on memory
—research observation
-(2)______
-careful record keeping
B. Ways to select samples in research
—time sampling
-systematic:e.g. fixed intervals every hour
-random: fixed intervals but (3)______
Systematic sampling and random sampling are often used in combination.
—(4)______
-definition: selection of different locations
-reason: humans’ or animals’ behaviour (5)______across circumstances
-(6)______: more objective observations
C. Ways to record behaviour (7)______
—observation with intervention
-participant observation: researcher as observer and participant
-field experiment: research (8)______over conditions
—observation without intervention
-purpose: describing behaviour (9)______
-(10)______: no intervention
-researcher: a passive recorder