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What are the advantages of observation studies in psychology?

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Observation is the only practical way to study the natural behaviour of small children and animals, or people unable to read or speak to you. Also, the subjects usually don't even know they are being studied, and so are not able to "act up" or respond in a way that might deliberately please or annoy the researcher.

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