Describe What Field Notes Are and What Jottings Are

question 42

Essay

Describe what field notes are and what jottings are. Then explain why jottings may be used instead of field notes during an observation. How soon after should jottings be transformed into extensive notes? Do you see any potential challenges with using the jotting technique?

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Definitions:

Conditioning

An approach to modifying behavior by teaching a subject to connect a favorable behavior with a stimulus that was initially unrelated.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual decrease and eventual elimination of a conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a conditioned response.