LAB 2: FIELD OBSERVATION

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In this lab, youll continue to tune your ability to notice how cognition actually unfolds in everyday life. By performing a close observation of a particular activity in the wild, youll gain more experience observing the coordination of cognitive resources, including: the internal (not-observeable), embodied, external and material. In addition, you practice documenting activity in still images, and in turn using photographs as data for subsequent description and analysis. You are tasked with learning how to see what is relevant in visual data, and use activity descriptions to support inferences about cognitive processes and outcomes. Your analysis will be grounded in course concepts.

The more care you put into observing and documenting your activity, the more insight youll gain into how cognition works beyond the headand the stronger your foundation will be for the projects that follow.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Observe: Continue to tune your attention to the much broader range of human activities that can be described as cognitive.
2. Record: Practice documenting cognitive activity via still photographs.
3. Practice: Obtaining informed consent from potential research participants.
4. Analyze: Clearly differentiate between data, description, and analysis, and use description to support inferences about cognitive processes and outcomes.

DELIVERABLE

A PDF copy of the Lab 2 report template uploaded to Canvas including: a field note; (2) primary photographs; a description of the (2) primary photographs; an analysis of the cognitive activity; References + Appendix A (informed consent of participants) + Appendix B (full set of photographs taken).

SUBMISSION

Format: Make a copy of the lab report template and follow its format carefully.

Length:Please use the styles provided in the report template. Your description and analysis together should be no longer than 1000 words.
Title: Please give your paper a title at the top of the document
Sections/headings:you are encouraged to use appropriate sections and heading to
structure your document and provide context for the reader, although they are not required. These should not take the place of actual body content as it relates to the expected length of your paper
Citations & References: You must cite a minimum of one (1) relevant reading from class, though you will likely find at least (2) of the required + optionals readings to be relevant. You must use APA formatting (see for a style guide, or leverage google scholar to generate the appropriate in-line citation format as well as format for the reference section ). No shallow citations. If you cite a source, explain its relevance and importance to the topic under discussion in enough detail to demonstrate a clear connection.

INSTRUCTIONS

PART 1: MAKE FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF A COGNITIVE ACTIVITY in the wild

1. Choose an activity to document.

• Make sure the activity is interesting, accessible, observable, legal, involves people interacting with other people and/or the material environment.
• Make sure the activity is naturalistic (i.e. not staged for the purpose of your observation).

1. Obtain informed consent from the individuals you wish to observe.

• Use the (photo informed consent) form, and make sure each participant you photograph signs the consent form (before you photograph them). You are required to include the signed documents as part of this assignment. Assignments without informed consent documents will not be graded and receive an automatic 0.

1. While observing the activity, take a substantial amount of photographs (not video).

• Please be judicious as though you were using a film camera, and plan to submit no more than 10-20 photos to fully document the activity.
• Capture interesting aspects of embodied engagement and the social and material environment of the activity.
• Shoot a combination of wide and close shots. Aim to record the primary sites of action, as well as what you might consider contextual elements.

1. In addition to your photographs, take at least (1) field note.

• Record the time and location of the activity.
• Describe (in words) what action is occurring, and any context you believe is relevant to the action.

PART 2: DESCRIBE THE COGNITIVE ACTIVITY

1. Choose two (2) photos to describe in detail.

• Your two photos should be different from each other in some way: before/after; process/product; front/back; wide/tight; social/material…

1. Write a description of each photograph, in detail.

• Pay close attention to your photographic data, and describe: What, where, who, when, how?
• Describe in detail observable embodied and external resources specific and relevant to the activity.
• Describe the arrangement and interaction of the relevant resources in both space and time

• Make sure your observations are based wholly on observations phenomena captured in the photos (i.e. your data), and not your own prior knowledge of the activity

PART 3: ANALYZE THE COGNITIVE ACTIVITY

1. Write a cohesive analysis of the entire cognitive activity that you observed, based on your raw data (field note, photographs) and description.

• Describe what you believe the goal of the activity likely was
• Look for evidence of basic cognitive processes (e.g. memory, perception, judgements decision-making, reasoning) as well as complex cognitive activities (e.g. planning, sensemaking, learning, etc. ) in your participants actions.
• Using the raw data, description, and concepts youve learned in class (appropriately referenced), make reasonable inferences about how the goals of the observed cognitive activity were met using the assemblage of resources you observed.

GRADING RUBRIC

USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES

The purpose of this assignment is to tune your ability to notice, observe, reflect, describe and analyze a cognitive activity. We recognize that writing is hard. However, writing is in and of itself an act of thinking. This is a situation in which it is not beneficial for your current learning or future research performance to offload the composition of writing onto an AI-based tool.

• FOR WRITING: You are not permitted to use generative AI systems (such as ChatGPT, Claude, and other synthetic text generating tools) in writing your lab report.

• You are permitted to use built-in grammar-correction based tools that are available in Google Docs.
• FOR INFORMATION GATHERING: You are not permitted to use AI recommender systems (such as ChatGPT, Claude, and AI based features in Google Scholar, Google Search, Semantic Scholar, etc) to locate and investigate relevant source resources including papers to reference. The act of searching and reviewing repositories of your own prior reading materials is beneficial to the act of reflection and analysis required to generate a thoughtful analysis of the cognitive task.
• FOR IDEATION: You are permitted, with caution, to use AI chat systems (such as ChatGPT, Claude, and similar) to discuss the ideas presented in a source reference. (i.e. chat with a chatbot about the source paper after skimming/re-reading it). If you choose to use AI in this way you are required to include the following text in your references section. The author discussed source [cite papers] with [model name] in preparation of this report]. [url], and then
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