practical

Question 1

what is event sampling

Answer 1

recording behaviour every time specific event occurs to target individual/group
behaviour recorded must be decided beforehand hard to observe if in a large area

Question 2

what is time sampling

Answer 2

recording target behaviours for a set lengths of time
reduces time taken- so less fatigue so higher accuracy but may miss some behaviour

Question 3

aim

Answer 3

aim of our naturalistic observation is to investigate differences in safe behaviour following highway code checklist of safe behaviours of adults w.w/o children while crossing the road at a set of traffic lights

Question 4

alternate hypothesis

Answer 4

there will be a significant difference in road crossing behaviours safe and unsafe between parents w children and w/o9 operationalised by the highway codde

Question 5

sample

Answer 5

13 adults without kids, 6 with , oppotunity sample, covert observation,students from college white , primary school kids

Question 6

procedure

Answer 6

sat on a bench near a set of traffic lights with materials eg pack and pens, using continuous sampling for any behaviour that occurs and event sampling record safe/un behaviour and w tallied it
analysed event sampling with chi square and thematic for continuous

Question 7

results

Answer 7

observed value at 5.736 is higher than critical value of 3.84 when the df is 1 and 0.005 level of sig for a one tailed test so results were sig

Question 8

thematic analysis results

Answer 8

adults with children- modelling safe behaviour eg praising , holding hands
adults without children unsafe behaviour

Question 9

strengths

Answer 9

high inter-rater reliability decided from more than 1 observer
high eco valid- natural envi

Question 10

weaknesses

Answer 10

low generalisability , low validity human observers objectivity