PSYC 2110 Chapter 11: PSYC 2110 Chapter 11 Notes
PSYC 2110 Chapter 11 Notes
Introduction
Kuczynski
• Kuczynski found that some of the children did break the promise to work so they could
play with the toys, whereas others continued with the work even when they thought no
one was watching.
• Aside from being a most feasible way of studying behaviours that occur infrequently or
are not openly displayed in the natural environment
• Structured observations also ensure that every participant in the sample is exposed to
the same eliciting stimuli and has an equal opportunity to perform the target behaviour
• Circumstances those are not always true in the natural environment.
• Of course, the major disadvantage of structured observation is that participants may not
always respond in a contrived laboratory setting as they would in everyday life.
• In an interesting example of structured observation, Tronick and his colleagues (Tronick
et al., 2005) studied the interaction between 4-month-olds and their mothers, with a
specific interest in how the mother–infant interactions of babies prenatally exposed to
cocaine compared to those of no exposed infants.
• To find out, they brought 695 mother–infant pairs into a laboratory setting, 236 of who
had been exposed to cocaine prenatally.
• Cameras were positioned so that both the ifat’s face ad the other’s face were
videotaped for three two minute periods.
• During the first two minutes, mother and child were allowed to interact normally.
• Durig the secod period the other was istructed to preset a still face to the
infant; that is, she was told not to laugh, smile, talk to, or touch the infant.
• During the third two-minute period, the mother was to resume normal interaction with
her child.
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