Question

Design an naturalistic observation study that looks at social behavior in humans.

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First, a group of male participants will be collected and placed in the isolated room to resist interruptions and interferes. Then, the sweats of females from females with different races will be provided to them to smell and observe their facial expressions to study which sweat from which race is the most pleasant one for the males.

Answer 1

Naturalistic observation involves observation without interfering with the subjects in their natural settings , and collecting the data. Naturalistic observation is a study design where the subjects are studied in their own natural settings without disturbing them, as disturbing them creates confounds in the study.

Here, in this study, the subjects are collected and placed in a room, which is not their natural setting. Placing them in a room or in a lab setting interferes with the basic premise of this design by placing them in an artificial setting. Also, here the participants will be knowing and aware that their sweats are collected and used for experiments research which is another confounding variable.