During lunch breaks, an observer watches children in a primary school playground as they play normally and tallies three categories of helpful behaviour: sharing a toy, helping a child who has fallen and comforting an upset child.
Explain one weakness of using a naturalistic observation in this study.
139 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.2 Doing Research, covering 7.2.1 Experiments, 7.2.2 Interviews, 7.2.3 Questionnaires (Surveys), 7.2.4 Observations, 7.2.5 Case Studies, and 7.2.6 Correlations. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.