Group+Experiment

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Based on the activities you did in TOK Wed, May 12, we would like you to do some critical thinking about what you did and why you did it. Please list the comments you were making in class in the charts below. Use the same format we used in class, and please be open and don’t fear any comments.======

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You will later be asked to discuss in writing the things that influenced your own behavior and that of others.======

Groups Thoughts / Feelings / Assumptions / Influences / Problems

Individuals watched by a Group


 * Thoughts || Feelings || Assumptions || Influences || Problems ||
 * What is the purpose of this activity? || Nervous || This is a foundation of summarizing all that we have learned so far about the Human Sciences || Observers (Faris and Amel) || Influences (To some extent) ||
 * What are we doing anyway? || Excited || This experiment is a combination of fun and mystery at the same time || Teachers (What would they think of me?) || Change of actual results ||
 * Is this a trick or some sort of prank? || Tensed ||  || Conscience || Comparisons may greatly differ ||
 * Was there some sort of hidden answer in all of these activities? || Lost train of thought ||  || What would be the result of the experiment? (How will I affect it?) ||   ||
 * What was its relation of this activity to Human Sciences? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * What WoKs are involved in this activity? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

Update your wikis! Your record of doing work exists there and must be up to date with HW assignments. Referring to the homework due on May 16, answer the following questions: Based on your observations of group and individual behaviour, is it reasonable to think human behaviour can be studied? Why or why not? What problems are associated with such work? It is simply not reasonable that we can study human behavior as such because every individual person is very distinct and unique from each other. If one claims that it could be possible to study human behavior in creating collective data, it is only possible to come up with a consensus in two different ways namely doing it in a very controlled environment or by cloning people would it only be possible. For example, if Adam was to do the washing of hands without knowing anything of the purpose of the activity, another set of washing of hands of being observed without knowing

What methods could be used, or did we use in class, that could be considered valid for observing behaviour? What problems exist with these methods? How can they be improved? In observing behavior, we could use the method in one would come in and be observed and the other one were one would come in and there would be no observers as they are very valid methods only in observing though. Although there are quite a few setbacks if we use one of these methods as there are certain influences that could change the results that might occur. There will be a large difference if the subjects didn't know what was the actual purpose of the experiment and if the subjects knew what was the actual purpose of it. Another problem that could occur is that if the subjects were forced to choose to do certain actions on a limited number of choices and if the subjects were allowed to do anything with the objects on the experiments.

Can specific observations about behaviour lead to statements about human behaviour in general? Explain in what situations this might be true, and when it might not be true? Further to this, can we classify or categorize human behaviour? Specific observations can never lead to the creation of statements about general human behavior as I said earlier, people are quite different from each other as even twins do differ in a lot of ways and the only possible way for someone to actually have similar behavior with another person is a perfect clone of that same person. But with this specific observations, we can classify the different types of human behavior but we can never generalize a certain group of people as a whole rather we can do it only to certain specific people.