Exam 1: An Orientation to Lifespan Development

Which developmental research strategy is borrowed from the field of anthropology and used to investigate cultural questions?

According to Sigmund Freud,the series of stages that children progress through in which pleasure and gratification are focused on a particular biological function is called __________.

Which perspective specifically focuses on the relationship between individuals and their physical,cognitive,personality,and social worlds?

Which perspective contends that people have a natural capacity to make decisions about their lives?

Describe the three major steps of the scientific method and give an example of each.

Some lifespan developmentalists use a(n)__________ approach,drawing on several perspectives simultaneously.

Which research strategy involves observing naturally occurring behavior without intervening in the situation?

Why is it wrong to ask "which theoretical perspective on lifespan development is correct?"

Which statement describes the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning?

Shalise believes that child development is a process of continuous change.Her classmate Evan says that development follows a pattern of discontinuous change.Who is correct?

Which technique ensures that personal characteristics that might affect the outcome of an experiment are scattered among research participants in the different groups,thereby making the groups roughly equivalent?

Summarize the four basic principles of ethical research,and provide an example of how each principle might be violated in a research study.

Lifespan developmentalists typically focus on a particular __________.

What is the best type of study to determine if daily reading with a parent can increase the speed at which a child learns to read independently?

When an investigator devises different conditions and then compares the outcomes of the participants exposed to those different conditions in order to see how behavior is affected,this is called a(n)__________.

Compared to young children,adults have a much harder time learning a new language.Researchers studying this phenomenon are mainly addressing which key issue in development?

Which research strategy involves extensive,in-depth interviews with a particular individual or small group?

Freud believed that the ego __________.

__________ is a prediction stated in a way that permits it to be tested.

The strength and direction of a relationship between two factors is represented by a(n)__________.