NEUR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Phineas Gage, Frontal Lobe, The New York Times
20 Sep 2016
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Descriptive research: first must show phenomena occurs, than you can describe it. When studying why something happens you must show that it does happen. Observe and record behaviour; describes overall behaviour of certain phenomena. Behavioural observation can be used for correlation and experimental research as well, therefore is only considered observational if the goal is only to describe, no cause and effect. Directly and systematically recording behaviour natural environment setting. Don"t disrupt behaviour as your results will not be accurate: 2 methods; habituate and become part of group in order to observe or conceal yourself and not be noticed observing (observe actually in natural enviro. Observation is subjective (opinions over facts) and therefore could compromise the results based on experimenters desire to see results; to prevent bias set guidelines before experiment) or have multiple observers to draw conclusions about behaviour (inter rater reliability.
