Module 5- Educational Videos

This video is all the about the descriptive method called naturalist observation. This is a method that studies organisms in their natural environment, environments that are not controlled or fixed during an experiment. This video gives the example of studying lions in there natural habitat. The experimenter tries to be hidden in a sense, so that the thing being observed acts natural. If the thing being observed knows it is being watched it could act differently and change the results of the experiment. There ultimately is no control of the experimenter in a naturalistic observation, but it is a great way to study everyday life and why things are the way they are.

This video enhances my learning on this topic by providing more example of naturalistic observations. It also does a good job of using more modern language to describe how the observes need to be. It is a good video for younger students like myself who are taking a psychology class or something like that. It simplifies the material down to just the important things that are needed to get a general knowledge for the topic. It also give both the positive and negative sides to naturalistic observations which is important to know especially for a test question when to use certain types of descriptive methods. I thought this video gave me a simpler but better understand of this topic through all those things.

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