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Corsaro's View Of Observational Learning

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William Corsaro (2006) has added another view on looking into observational learning in particular children’s friendships. Corsaro wanted to explore how children understand friendship and how they speak to one another. Corsaro used a video recorder to further observe his designed experiment as well as making many notes and thoughts. His experiment involved a member of his research team taking part with the children who were allowed to play together naturally. This gave the researcher first-hand and deeper knowledge into key valves and fully observed how children learn to speak to each other and develop those key friendships. A limitation from this type of observation would be that the research would not be able to take notes during the experiment as it could blow the cover and show the children that they are actually taking part within an experiment. The research could become bias by being part of the investigation and unable to see certain results. …show more content…

It was his experiences within the RAF that made him become interested in psychology. Broadbent (1958) became interested in how people operate the equipment and wanted to investigate the ability of the operators. When he left the RAF he designed investigations which looked at how people hear and then further process that information. Because the experiments were based on how people hear and how the brain processes that information it was unable to be observed by watching as there wasn’t anything to be witnessed straight away. Instead to record the patterns and findings from his experiment Broadbent used a detailed flow diagram which demonstrated what happened as well as descriptive terminology. Broadbent’s method of recording his results are still being used today .This proves that not every experiment in psychology has to be observed and that there are other successful methods of finding and recording

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