Observational design

Question 1

A01 Define

Observational design

Answer 1

The choice of behaviours to record & how they are meaured

Question 2

A01

Define Operationalised behavioural categories

Answer 2

Behaviours need to be clearly identifiable & measurable
e.g agression=number of pushes,punches & kicks

Question 3

A01

What is time sampling

Answer 3

Researchers record all relevant behaviour at set points
e.g everything for 15 s, every 10m over a 1 hour observaton

Question 4

What is event sampling

Answer 4

Researchers records every time a behaviour occurs from the list of operationalised behaviour categories

Question 5

explain why researchers should assess relaibly of observational designs

Answer 5

Researchers should assess reliability of their own observation to see if its consist with other researchers observation by testing inter rater reliability

Question 6

What is inter-rater reliability

or inter-obsevr reliablity

Answer 6

Two(or more) trained observers conduct the same observation
* Researchser shoukd use same list of operationalised categories
* Conduct the observation seperateky
* compare the two independeltu produced data sets
* test a correlation (e.g spearmans rho)