NATURALISTIC OBSERVATIONS SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES POPULATIONS AND SAMP...

3. Naturalistic observations Suggested Activities Populations and Samples: Use Activity Handout: 2.3: Populations and Samples to give the students experience in identifying the population and samples in various examples. The students should be able to differentiate between who the population is and who makes up the sample. Naturalistic Observation: Have students write down five places where naturalistic observation research could take place. Next break the students into groups and have them discuss among their group what five places they wrote down. Have the groups decide on three of the places and describe what type of research variables a researcher would possibly be looking at in these settings and why laboratory research could not be conducted there. The students will get an idea of the differences between laboratory research and naturalistic observation and why certain variables cannot be conducted in both settings.

LO 2.4: Distinguish between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

Lecture Outline IV. Analyzing and Interpreting Data A. Descriptive Statistics