La observación sistemática de conductas y eventos ambientales a través del lag method

Abstract

Direct observation is widely used in environment psychology. The techniques commonly used in specific applications must be selected by the investigator from the various techniques that are open for his use, such as: Behavioral observation, participant direct observation, behavioral mapping, behavior setting surveys, and specimen behavior record. Even when behavior-environment interaction is a central theoretical concept in environmental psychology, Fisher, Bell & Bann (1984) developed their concepts that the social sciences have provided them, and at the same time allow as an alternative, the «Lag method» process (Sackett, 1978a, 1979b) that acting as a technique for measurement analysis and interpretation of data that is obtained using a sequence be it the behavior of a single subject or various ones, that may, or may not interact with the environment and collect the concepts of more common usage for a more adequate «tune-up» in the study of those behavioral events and their subject-environment relation.