PSYC 2360 Chapter 7: Chapter 7.docx
11 Mar 2012
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Ecological validity the extent to which the research is conducted in situations that are similar to the everyday life experiences of the participants. Making observations of behaviour and recording those observations in an objective manner scientist can become an observer or a participant. Descriptive records of one or more individuals experiences and behaviour sometimes they involve normal people but more often they involve unusual or abnormal individuals with such experiences, or those going through difficult or stressful situations. Little hans, split brain patients, brain experiments with animals, etc. Based on the experiences of only a very limited number of normally quite unusual individuals. Systematic observation involves specifying ahead of time exactly which observations are to be made on which people and in which times and places. Event sampling (specific behaviours related to something), then individual sampling (select one child to be the focus) time sampling (single child for 4 minutes before moving to another)
