Good but bittersweet news for fans of The Americans. The hit FX drama series, which focuses on Russian spies living undercover as Americans in the 1980s, is currently in its fourth season, with three more episodes to go, and FX has renewed the critically acclaimed show for not one but two more seasons!
Experiments that take advantage of natural occurrences are quasi-experiments, for example, comparing achievement level of first-born children with that of later-born children; or comparing student performance at two schools, one of which has a lower student-teacher ratio.
when the group under observation is small and the activities of the participant observer are prominent. A researcher interested in change blindness substitutes a different instructor midway through the first class of a research methods course. A confederate in the back row counts how many students notice the switch. This is an example of: structured observation. In order to conduct a structured observation or a field experiment, researchers make use of ___________ to create the observation situation. failure to follow similar procedures each time an observation is made may make it difficult for other observers to obtain similar results.