Exam 1: Approaching Psychological Development

Reliability and validity are very important concepts in psychological research.Describe what both of these are and provide an example of something being reliable but not valid.

The type of imaging technique that a scientist would use to measure oxygen usage by the brain in a magnetic field is:

The perspective most associated with the work of Sigmund Freud is the ________ perspective.

In order to protect children's rights when they participate in research, studies usually are approved by a university's:

In development, qualitative change occurs when a(n):

What are experimental and observational studies? What is the key difference between them?

Your plan for studying development involves fitting infants with EEG caps and recording what happens when they engage in particular behaviors.Your perspective is best described as:

Empiricism is the idea that development occurs:

The idea that unresolved, internal conflicts can sidetrack development comes from the ________ perspective.

For class you need to do an interview project on the developmental lifespan.You should interview:

A within-subjects design is conducted such that all children:

You are setting up a longitudinal study and have decided to use microgenetic analysis.This means you will assess your children:

Dr.Leigh conducted the following study.Following IRB approval, she identified parents of 40, 1-year-old children.She divided the families randomly into two groups of 20 and gave the infants in Group A educational CDs to listen to each night, and Group B received classical music CDs.After a week, she had the parents fill out a questionnaire rating how much they believed their children's IQ had risen.Clearly specify the type of study this is and the independent and dependent variables.Also, what happens if both groups show improvement? What could Dr.Leigh have done differently?

Explain why it is important to study child development.Give at least three strong reasons to support your opinion.

There are many topics which come to bear on psychological development.Some important issues are early intervention programs, universal health care, social security, and mandatory education which are examples of:

What is the nature-versus-nurture controversy? Briefly explain why it is important.

Dr.Allison focuses on the way we learn, represent, use, and understand information across different parts of the lifespan.She is using the ________ perspective.

Investigating differences in development across species is associated with the ________ perspective.

The various developmental perspectives that have been advanced are important because of all of the following EXCEPT:

What is an IRB and what important functions are they tasked with?