Exam 2: Research Methods: Tools for Discovery

Quantitative studies:

An idea or concept, especially a complex one such as aggression or love, is:

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of field experiments, natural experiments, and lab experiments for studying social development.

What are 3 main features of the ethnographic method?

Ecological validity is principally concerned with:

Researchers interested in studying the way a child responds to a parent's directions would most likely use:

Which of the following is an advantage of field experiments:

Which of the following is not an advantage of case studies? Case studies:

Which of the following is not a construct:

The most common way to investigate age-related differences is to use a cross-sectional design

A principal difference between field experiments and interventions is that interventions have the explicit goal of changing behavior

Describe 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of longitudinal designs

The problem of observer bias cannot be reduced by carefully training observers

Information collected in the child's natural settings, at home, in child care, or in school without interfering with the child's activities is:

There is usually only one good way to measure a given construct

Whether or not a participant is part of the experimental treatment or a control group is an example of:

Correlational studies do not allow us to determine whether a factor is actually causing a child's behavior, yet researchers conduct them because:

What challenges do cohort-related changes play in the study of social development and how do you overcome these challenges?

List the advantages of neurological assessments of social development

An individual reacts with less and less intensity to a repeatedly presented stimulus until he or she responds only faintly or not at all. This is called: