2/27 Friday • Test Unit 1 Results are on IC • You will have your lowest test grade dropped at the

end of year

• Naturalistic Observation Assignment Due Friday (3/5)• You need to use YOUR time (your lunch for example) & any time I give in class to observe• Select a natural occurring, public behavior that you think will be influenced by the independent variable YOU choose. • READ THE DIRECTIONS PAGE if you haven’t already! **do not socialize/disturb environment! • PASS needs to be visible and any behavior not appropriate will result

in an automatic ZERO for the assignment if you choose to use class today for lunch.

Ideas!• Observe a homeless person asking for money, how many people help?• Observe students leaving school, walking in the mall, or sitting in a restaurant, how manyare on their cell phone?• How many people driving are on a cell phone?• How many people say thank you, open a door, hold a door…• How many people go through a yellow light?• Observe parenting/teacher behavior. How may raise their voice? When?• Observe children interacting at lunch/parking lot. What types of behavior do they show?• Observe a particular ‘social group’. What similarities do they show? What differences do• they show?• How many people wipe down the gym equipment after they use it? (who: race, gender)• How many people return their shopping carts to the cart area? (who: race, gender)• How many throw trash away? (who: race, gender)• What percentage of people order water rather than soft drinks? Is there a correlation in• body size?

• Decide what you will observe and develop a hypothesis – What do you THINK you will see during your observation. • For example, ‘It is hypothesized 60% of women will look in the mirror

while only 25% of men will look in the mirror while passing by.”• Choose a setting and time for the observation. You are to spend

approximately 45 minutes watching and making a detailed record of the subject(s), gathering data which will "begin" to test your hypothesis. • Plan your observational "method" to be sure you are not

"discovered" (so that the "naturalistic" quality of the observation is not lost). • Take notes on everything you can observe about the subject(s). • If you take notes on your phone, take a screenshot it and email it to

me!

3/2 Monday• Check IC to check updates on

grades/missing work• Online survey (1 min)• Observation (last day of in-

class time to observe/report)• Report Due Friday• Review Sheets (don’t forget to

turn this in from last week)• Beginning Unit 2 Tues 3/3