Exam 1: An Orientation to Lifespan Development

Why is asking "which theoretical perspective is right?" the wrong question to ask?

__________ emphasizes the processes that allow people to know,understand,and think about the world.

During an experiment,researchers manipulate the __________ and measure the __________.

How are assimilation and accommodation similar?

A scientist is interested in the processes of cognitive change during childhood and decides to see how many words children of various ages can remember after one exposure to a list of words.What type of research is this scientist conducting?

Benito conducts an experiment in which group A is exposed to a particular treatment and group B is given no treatment.If group A is designated as the treatment group,then group B is the __________.

Explain the three different types of cohort effects and give an example of each.

__________ research is designed to discover causal relationships between various factors.

Which type of research design takes the longest amount of time to complete?

Researchers must obtain __________ from participants before their involvement in a study.

Piaget's two basic principles of growth in children's understanding of the world are __________.

Proponents of which major theoretical perspective believe that behavior is largely motivated by subconscious inner forces and memories?

In an experiment,the __________ is what researchers manipulate.

Proponents of which major theoretical perspective believe that the keys to understanding development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment?

Which perspective seeks to identify behavior that is the result of our genetic inheritance?

What type of research design is used when people of different ages are compared at the same point in time?

Explain what a correlation coefficient measures,and provide examples of what different kinds of coefficients indicate.

Why is the concept of race increasingly insignificant in current times?

Lifespan development examines patterns of growth,change,and __________ in human behavior across the life span.

Freud believed that the goal of the id was to __________.