Methods of Naturalistic Observation and Self-Report in Psychology
Methods
Naturalistic Observation
- Researcher collects information without the participant’s awareness
- Advantages: Researcher does not influence the participant’s behavior, so it may be more representative than if people knew they were being watched
- Disadvantages: Not everything can be observed in its natural environment, expensive
Structured Observation
- Researchers can set up a situation and observe that participant’s behavior
- Advantages: Researcher has more control of the situation and can keep most
Understanding Culture: Components and Features
Culture consists of the shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects and beliefs, values, and behavior shared by a group. Material includes beliefs, family patterns, ideas, language, political and economic systems, rules, skills, and work practices.
Society:
Group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.The Components of Culture:
Technology:
A society’s culture consists of not only physical objects,
Understanding Group Cohesion and Development
Group Cohesion and Development
Group cohesion is the integrity, solidarity, and unity of the group. Cohesiveness is an indication of the health of the group and is related to a variety of other group processes. Entitativity is perceived cohesiveness. Cohesion (as the principle of equifinality suggests) can result from one or more sources, including attraction relations, task relations, identity, emotions, and structure.
Social Cohesion
Social cohesion is unity based on bonds of attraction among members
Read MoreUnderstanding Consumer Behavior and Its Impact on Marketing
Consumer Behavior: It is the study of the process involved when individuals or groups select, purchase, use or dispose products, services, ideas or experiences to satisfy needs and/or desires. Factors That Affect Consumption: Cultural: values, perceptions, preferences, behaviors, nationalities, religion, racial group, geographical areas. Social: membership groups, aspirational groups, dissociative groups, of orientation, procreation. Psychological: motivation perception, learning and memory, roles.
Read MoreAcute Psychiatric Conditions: Diagnosis and Treatment
***Dx of Acute Psychiatric Condition :
^^the physician :-Know various psychiatric(psychosis, depression / suicide)-Complete assessment-PE-lab test-imaging-ID the psychiatric condition-Tx it-Pts taking X —>ADR!
^^Acute condition1- OH -illicit X: withdrawal delirium2- Delirious pts (DH)3- Suicidal pts4- violent pts5-Acute psychosis pts
Understanding the Sociological Imagination and Key Sociological Concepts
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
- We can better understand many phenomena—like college admissions policies—using the sociological imagination.
- The application of imaginative thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions. Someone using the sociological imagination “thinks themselves away” from the familiar routines of daily life
Troubles vs Issues:
- Troubles • They “occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate