NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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The Hyper effect
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The Horton Effect
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The Hawthorne effect
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The Highway effect
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Hawthorne Effect refers to the fact that people will modify their behavior simply because they are being observed. The effect gets its name from one of the most famous industrial history experiments that took place at Western Electric’s factory in the Hawthorne suburb of Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Example. A study of hand-washing among medical staff found that when the staff knew they were being watched, compliance with hand-washing was 55% greater than when they were not being watched (Eckmanns 2006).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hawthorne Effect is a situation where an individual or group of people know they are being observed and so change their behaviour accordingly. This is why some researchers favour covert observation.