Psychologists often observe the development of social skills in educational settings.

Suggest how you could carry out an observation of cooperative play in Year 3 primary school children (aged 7–8 years) during their classroom group work.

In your answer, you will be awarded credit for providing appropriate details about the following:

• the type of observation you would carry out
• at least two examples of appropriate operationalised behavioural categories you would observe
• the behavioural sampling method you would use for your observations.