Naturalistic Observation: Unveiling Human Behaviour

In Module 3 on the topic of the Biology of the Mind, there is a section in which it refers to the term of Naturalistic Observation as one of the technique methods when a person is trying to conduct a research study on a subject.
In the textbook, “Psychology in Modules”, the example that is given to the reader is of how researchers’ observe chimpanzees figuring out a way on how to get the termites out of a mound using a stick. Naturalistic Observation is defined as a “second descriptive method in which it records a person’s behavior in natural environments” (pg.28) (Myers & DeWall, 2015). The action of the subject can’t be explained only described, including that it can illuminate human behavior. This topic reminds me of a time back when my

Even when my parent’s friends would come visit us during the weekends, I wouldn’t like to be acting ridiculous around them or interrupt their conversations. I would just go back to my room to not cause any disturbance because I didn’t want people to have an awful perspective of my behavior. She would describe me as of today as quiet, reserved and timid around others. I would often avoid trying to be open to people that I don’t know and very little do I interact with them. By the response she gave me, I wondered whether or not this behavior affected me in anyway as a person up until now for these characteristics I still portray.
On the observation I collected as he grew up, I realized that he has a different personality than me even though we are siblings from the same parents. Concluding to that, I realize that every one of us expresses a different behavior and characteristics through certain aspects and situations in our everyday lives. If everyone would be behaving the same way as another person, it’ll be difficult to differentiate each other as we would be clones of the same person we would want to portray. Everyone is unique and we should appreciate our own selves for that make