An educational psychologist sits in the corner of a primary school classroom during a normal art lesson, pretending to write in a personal diary, while secretly tallying the frequency of sharing behaviours among the children. The children and teacher are unaware that their sharing behaviour is being recorded, and the classroom layout has not been modified in any way.
Which combination of terms correctly describes this observational study?
Controlled, overt, and participant
Naturalistic, covert, and non-participant
Naturalistic, overt, and participant
Controlled, covert, and non-participant
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.