AS Psychology Observational Study Of Refectory Behaviour.

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AS Psychology Observational Study Of Refectory Behaviour.

I am going to conduct an experiment to observe the type of food purchased buy the members of Braintree College. I shall conduct my experiment with a team of peers and we shall conduct the experiment retaining discretion.

Hypothesis: "Females buy more sandwiches in the college refectory"

Aim.

From my one tailed hypothesis you can see that my aim is to observe whether females purchase more bread-based products e.g. sandwiches, rolls and baguettes from the college refectory, during a standard thirty-minute break.

Subjects.

Our subjects were people who have a connection with Braintree College and who were buying products for consumption from the college refectory. There is no way we could be sure that everyone that we observed was actually part of the college, but for our observational experiment there was no way in which we could over come this problem and no way in which it should effect our results.
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Materials

Our data-recording sheet was a table consisting of two columns with separate male and female sides. We kept a tally as to who purchased bread based products. This was the easiest and most efficient data-recording sheet we designed as it enabled us to collect the data quickly and discreetly.

Final data recording sheet.

Females purchasing Bread-based Products

Males purchasing bread-based products.

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Inter observer reliability

During our experiment we positioned ourselves so that the three of us were looking in separate directions, but so we were all ...

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