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1
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What are the three main observational designs?

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  • Behavioural categories
  • Time sampling
  • Event sampling
2
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What is a behavioural categories?

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The target behaviour to be observed should be broken up into a set of observable categories

3
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What is behavioural categories similar to?

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Operationalisation

4
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What are the limitations of behavioural catergories?

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  • Difficult to make clear and unambiguous

- Dustin categories = behaviours go unrecorded

5
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What is time sampling?

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observations are made at intervals e.g every 15 seconds

6
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Strength of time sampling:

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Reduce number of observations = structured and systematic

7
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Limitation of time sampling:

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Unrepresentative = may miss important details out of time-scale

8
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What is event sampling?

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A target behaviour or event is recorded every time it occurs

9
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Strengths of event sampling:

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May require infrequent behaviours

10
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Limitations of event samplings:

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Complex behaviours oversimplified = important details may go unrecorded