PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jane Goodall, Naturalistic Observation, Hawthorne Effect
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Observation: naturalistic (jane goodall: chimps- does not change their natural habits/environment) Just watching people and documenting it: laboratory. Control how we want to see people therefore we change their natural habitat, and bring them into a lab context (ex. ) Watching people and documenting it but the context has changed. A study of one person or a small group due to something strange (normally) Cannot generalize to a larger population due to their rare cases. The case of h. m. : the man who could not make memories because the surgeons removed the middle part of his brain, but could do new motor memory (re-learned how to play tennis) Directly observe people in a study behaving exactly as they normally do. Hawthorne effect: people who are being observed in studies/in their workplace often improve or change their behaviours because they are being studied, not in response to experimental manipulation. Have to wait for the event to happen (naturally)
