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Question 5

Students' perception of how productively they use their study time in a university library often differs from reality. Some spend more time scrolling on their phones or daydreaming than actually reading or writing. A psychologist decides to observe the actual behaviour of an opportunity sample of library users in a university's silent-study zone.

Design an observational study to investigate how students spend their time in a university library silent-study zone.

In your answer you will be awarded credit for providing appropriate details of:

  • type of observation with justification
  • operationalised behavioural categories
  • use of time and/or event sampling with justification
  • how reliability of data collection could be assessed.
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Scientific processes Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Scientific processes

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