Event And Time Sampling

Question 1

What is event sampling?

Answer 1

Event sampling involves counting the amount of times a behaviour occurs

Question 2

Give an advantage of event sampling

Answer 2

researcher is less likely to miss behaviour

Question 3

Give an disadvantage of event sampling

Answer 3

Observer may miss other important behaviour

Question 4

What is time sampling?

Answer 4

Time sampling involves what the individual is doing in a fixed time frame
e.g. 30 seconds

Question 5

Give an advantage of time sampling

Answer 5

It limits the number of observations that have to be made

Question 6

Give a disadvantage of time sampling

Answer 6

The times observed may be unrepresentative of the whole observation