Analog observation is, in contrast to naturalistic observation, a research tool by which a subject is observed in an artificial setting.[1] Typically, types of settings in which analog observation is utilized include clinical offices or research laboratories, but, by definition, analog observations can be made in any artificial environment, even if the environment is one which the subject is likely to encounter naturally.
- ^ Comer, Ronald J. (1996). Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co. p. 80.