Naturalistic Observation Examples
Naturalistic Observation Report
There are many places a psychologist can obtain “naturalistic” viewpoints of human beings in any given situation in life. The situations I have listed below are three examples of “naturalistic observations”, I have witnessed over the last six weeks and a lifetime that signify various ideas, emotions and reactions of the given circumstances. I hope these instances I have provided, make you think of similar situations that you may have encountered in the past or possibly in your near future.
Example 1
In my first observation, I visited three different car dealerships, pretending I was a prosperous prospective customer who had inherited a lump sum of money from the death of parent. I had informed …show more content…
I am usually an honest person, who doesn’t like any person or persons being dishonest with me. I feel that, perhaps I made each salesman a little bit better in their approach and techniques, while servicing me. I had asked more question to them about their own salesman abilities and found out I was just dealing with “rookies”. Therefore, I really enjoyed performing this “natural observation” in several different ways. First, I really liked not being “preyed upon” like I was a human, unsuspecting animal with deep pockets. In all cases above, dealerships “A, B & C,” did show me some respect, because I initially told them of my buying plan. Each dealer reacted differently, but each gave me the space I needed to make my OWN decision on selecting my choice of vehicle. I also found out that all types of car salesman at these “pristine” dealerships basically have no formal training or none at all. Does this mean all the qualified people have given up because of this poor economy or have they just changed jobs? Another one quality I did like was that no dealership ever pressured me to “buy today”. I have purchased vehicles from dealerships before and was taught to never let a customer off the lot until you have them in the grip of your
There are many places a psychologist can obtain “naturalistic” viewpoints of human beings in any given situation in life. The situations I have listed below are three examples of “naturalistic observations”, I have witnessed over the last six weeks and a lifetime that signify various ideas, emotions and reactions of the given circumstances. I hope these instances I have provided, make you think of similar situations that you may have encountered in the past or possibly in your near future.
Example 1
In my first observation, I visited three different car dealerships, pretending I was a prosperous prospective customer who had inherited a lump sum of money from the death of parent. I had informed …show more content…
I am usually an honest person, who doesn’t like any person or persons being dishonest with me. I feel that, perhaps I made each salesman a little bit better in their approach and techniques, while servicing me. I had asked more question to them about their own salesman abilities and found out I was just dealing with “rookies”. Therefore, I really enjoyed performing this “natural observation” in several different ways. First, I really liked not being “preyed upon” like I was a human, unsuspecting animal with deep pockets. In all cases above, dealerships “A, B & C,” did show me some respect, because I initially told them of my buying plan. Each dealer reacted differently, but each gave me the space I needed to make my OWN decision on selecting my choice of vehicle. I also found out that all types of car salesman at these “pristine” dealerships basically have no formal training or none at all. Does this mean all the qualified people have given up because of this poor economy or have they just changed jobs? Another one quality I did like was that no dealership ever pressured me to “buy today”. I have purchased vehicles from dealerships before and was taught to never let a customer off the lot until you have them in the grip of your