Naturalistic Observation Paper

As sweat pooled down her face and a low guttural grunt escaped her mouth, DePaul University student Natalie Marcrum gave one final thrust of her knee to the imaginary predator. Learning to defend herself, as well as others Marcrum works to prevent sexual assault before it happens.

Zoe has grown tremendously over the past few weeks I have been observing her. Not only am I observing her, but I am tutoring her in Spanish, Earth Science and Geometry class alongside with her peers. Zoe loves the attention she gets on center stage. I suggested she try out for the talent show her school is holding in December. She would definitely fit the part of any dance or acting skit she intend to perform.

Individuals in our urban Anthropology class have stated that they do not identify with those in their neighborhood but rather through an academic affiliation, a place of worship, an occupation, or a place of hobby such as an arts organization or a sport that they participate in. This fall we analyzed the innovative rooftop of John Jay College to see the neighborhood from an aerial perspective to see what is happening in the neighborhood around the college. Even more recently, we were broken off into groups to walk along 59th street and 10th avenue towards 1st avenue. From the rooftop I was able to observe that reclamation of space and advanced urbanization that were taking place. From the walk along 59th street I was able to observe the change

For my campus immersion activity, I watched the movie The Hunting Ground. This movie is a documentary based on college students and their struggles they have encountered about begin sexually assaulted on their campus. Throughout this movie, I found myself almost in tears, or clenching my blanket so tight because it was so difficult and frustrating to hear these victim’s stories and how they almost always never received the help they were hoping for from their own universities. Hearing statistics repeatedly mentioned about how colleges could have over 200 reported sexual assaults, but have only 1 expulsion, or only have 10 suspensions, is completely ridiculous and inconceivable. What is it going to take for these colleges to step up and help these victims and hold the assailants accountable?

Over the past few months, the class has been discussing typical and atypical language development and the assessment and intervention of children with language delay or disorder. In line with this, the students were asked to observe children aged 0-12 years old with language problems for 2 hours. For this requirement, I went to a therapy center situated in Quezon City last November 16, from ten (10) A.M. to twelve (12) N.N. The center has multiple rooms that are used for speech therapy and occupational therapy. During my observation, two speech pathologists and two children with language disorder were sharing one speech therapy room.

Aliana Marie McIntyre became the subject of my observation for this paper after Mr. Carroll assigned our seats. At first I was stuck between 3 people to write the paper on, but I picked her because she’s always in my line of vision throughout the class. Also her metallic red and gold Starbucks cup caught my eye because it was stylish and stood out, this to me indicated that she would probably also be stylish and original thus being a good subject.

The fourth finding I found was that even though Pre-K environments have an emphasis on group activities there was often a designated area in the classroom where children could go and be alone and self-reflect. However, these spaces were used differently throughout the three programs. In one program children went to what they called the “cool down chair” when they misbehaved. In this particular program usually a talkative child who may have been disruptive would have to go to the chair and think about what he or she did wrong. The chair was located in a corner where there were crayons and other play items that the child was allowed to use, but mainly it was a sort of punishment. Being excluded from the group signified to them that the way

The three different research methods are naturalistic observations, surveys, and case studies. A naturalistic observation is when someone is observing people or animals in a natural environment or set. A naturalistic observation would be good to use when you observing people in a a cafeteria. For example under appropriate conditions, you can observe the amount of people who naturally order healthy food verses unhealthy food. Naturalistic observation are good only if you take the time to observe people in their natural environments. There are also downsides to this method of research. There can be an observer effect, when someone is staring at you do the research, observer bias, when someone has a background, and you could also have no control

People tend to think that sexual harassment and rape are the same thing. However, that is not always the case. According to Dictionary, the definition of sexual harassment is “uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical behaviour of a sexual nature especially by a person in authority toward a subordinate.” Forced kissing, groping, or even looking at someone the wrong way is considered to be sexual harassment. There are a lot of cases off college campuses, but recently campuses particularly have been an issue. Media has been shining light towards how often this situation occurs on college campuses, and according to current incidents, sexual harassment of campuses has become an even bigger issue.

According to developmental psychology a person at any age is at a certain stage of cognitive, moral, psychosocial, and physical development. This development is measured by different types of thinking, mental capacity for tasks, physical strength, and reasoning for following rules. Development is easily seen in children. Naturalistic observation is the one of the easiest method to see these developments in children. This is the observation technique I used, while watching a five year old male at Kindercare Daycare at 3:30 on a Friday. I did my observation after the children had a recess period and came inside for a snack and play time. While observing the male child it was obvious to see where he was in cognitive, moral, psychosocial, and physical development.

President Obama and leaders of universities came together to create the “It On Us” campaign against sexual assault on college campuses. The campaign wants everyone to assume responsibility and realize that we can all do something to stop sexual assault. There is a culture of silence at college campuses when it comes to sexual assault, and that is a major issue because it leads to victims blaming themselves and not reporting the incident. “It On Us” wants all universities to step forward and take action towards fighting sexual assault.

Sexual Assault is a horrible problem in the United States. On average, 1 in 5 women in the United States has reported being raped at least once in her life. In addition, 78.7% of women reported that their rape occurred before they turned 25, and 40.4% reported that their rape happened before they turned 18 (Itzin 2430). The sexual objectification of women in our society contributes to rape culture that allows sexual assault to happen. In addition, rape victims often do not report their rape due to victim blaming, which is also a part of rape culture. Police departments can also be insensitive when handling sexual assault cases, which can cause the victims to doubt themselves or maybe not even accurately report exactly what happened. Sexual

Imagine a college freshman is studying with a friend when suddenly the true intentions of the friend are made apparent. A guy is having a great time at a party until a girl he does not know forces herself upon him. A weak and tired girl is trying to make it back to her dorm room on a Saturday night when a group of frat boys discover her. All of these stories seem different, but they end in the same way: sexual assault. Assault can happen to anyone, anywhere, regardless of gender or age. Sexual assault occurs frequently in college yet about “90% of sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report the assault” ("Statistics About Sexual Violence"). Although the majority of people are under the assumption that the assault is the fault of

Many children are exposed to various sexual violence’s and behaviours in their own homes which causes depression, anger issues and mental disorders, but to some it might seem to be the right thing to do and they start to practice what they are exposed to at home at schools to other learners. Learners tend to assault other learners whenever the thoughts of what they experience at home may arise, in this manner they bring what they have seen or heard at home in the school environment. For example a boy who grew up in a home where he was exposed to his father abusing the mother regularly in his presence the child can put what they experienced at home in practice at school. Many South African schools experience this kind of behaviours not knowing were learners got the idea how and why they are behaving in that

A good teacher should know how to engage students in learning activities and be able to respond to diverse students needs in the classroom. The classroom observations I have seen these past week has shown me examples of good teachers. In all the classes I observed the students sat quietly and were always ready to raise their hands and answer questions. In my kindergarten class all the students were really into their assignments and wanted approval of their work from their teacher. A good way I saw a teacher trying to keep her students engaged was giving them a time limit for how long they had to do the assignment before they had to present their results or move on to the next activity.