A sociologist wants to study the workplace subculture of high-frequency traders in an investment bank. She secures a job as a junior analyst at the firm, blending in completely with the staff, who remain entirely unaware that she is a researcher collecting data. Over several months, she performs the daily duties of an analyst while secretly keeping a detailed field diary of group interactions.
Which research technique is this researcher utilizing?
Covert non-participant observation
Covert participant observation
Overt participant observation
Naturalistic structured observation
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.