event sampling
What event sampling means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Counting each occurrence of the target behaviour across the whole session, which suits behaviour that happens rarely.
Tallies every occurrence of a target act, as when each instance of help and the delay before it were logged.
Topics that use event sampling
- Scientific processes (AQA A-Level)
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Counterbalancing
- operationalisation
- order effects
- participant variables
- Random allocation
- representativeness
- time sampling
- Absenteeism and productivity
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