You Are Interested in How Teenagers Think About Decision Making

Essay

You are interested in how teenagers think about decision making, and want to use naturalistic observation to assess the frequency of different thoughts, and valence of those thoughts, that a person experiences when asked to respond to a given stimuli (e.g., when asked whether he or she would try a new type of illicit drug). How could you do it? Could you use facial expressions in some way? What about eye movement or other unobtrusive physiological movements or responses? How else could you observe cognition (albeit indirectly) as unobtrusively and as "naturally" as possible? What might your coding scheme look like for these behavioral observations?