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Q Think of a topic or scenario that could be used for a participant observation, and please respond to the following: • How does participant observation differ from naturalistic observation? • What would you want to study and why would this be good to study with a participant observation? • Summarize how you could conduct a participant observation to assess this. • Would you use disguised or undisguised participant observation? Why?

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In the context of primary research work, both participants’ observation and naturalistic observation are regarded as two major types of observational research; which broadly contributes in the context of having thorough insight about some specific subject of research (Passer, 2017). The major difference between observational research and naturalistic research lies in the fact that, while in naturalistic research, the researcher observes the research participant/participants in a natural setting, it has been evidenced that in case of participant observation,