Which of These Sociology Students Is Engaging in Participant Observation

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of these sociology students is engaging in participant observation?

• A)John watches preschool students who are not aware he is there.
• B)Mary visits a first-grade classroom to conduct a study on teacher-student interactions and helps out in the classroom as a para-educator.
• C)Bill sits on a park bench and observes behavior without people's knowledge.
• D)Sue observes medical students working on a patient without his or her knowledge that she is present.

Understand the concepts of morbidity, mortality, and the epidemiology of different diseases.

Analyze the role of substances such as drugs and alcohol in public health.

Assess the impacts of social networks, lifestyles, and stress on health.

Understand the role of public health initiatives and personal responsibility in preventing disease.

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Definitions:

Inattentional Blindness

The psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, purely as a result of lack of attention rather than any vision defects or deficits.

Sequential Processing

The cognitive process of understanding and managing information in a specific, ordered sequence, critical for tasks such as problem-solving and learning.

Blindsight

A phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli in that area without consciously perceiving them.

Selective Attention

The process by which one focuses on one input or task while ignoring other stimuli or information.