Exam 1: Approaching Psychological Development

Generally, development is described in the text as occurring in six broad domains, which are:

You need to do a group project on the development of toddler speech for your child psychology class.Rather than try to train children to say certain words, you decide to go in pairs to a day care and watch what the children there say.Your group has decided to conduct a(n) ________ study.

You are helping Dr.Jones collect data for his study on young school-age children.You know this means you should be prepared to work with children aged:

The cross-species study of traits and abilities from an evolutionary perspective is:

List the nine periods of development outlined in the book.Using these as examples, why is it important to study development across the lifespan?

When psychologists are described as taking a "lifespan" approach, this means they are interested in:

You are studying development by trying to determine if there are particular similarities and differences between different peoples.You are using the:

You decide to use EEG to measure subtle changes in the development of infants' perceptual abilities over several months.You are taking the:

You are concerned about conducting your observational research with children in a day care.After discussing this issue with your thesis advisor, you have learned:

An observational study is one in which children are:

The use of many different techniques to study a problem, and then using all of the results in combination to further our understanding of a concept, is called using:

Describe what reliability is and include in your description at least two types of reliability mentioned in the text.Be sure to provide an example of each.

Determining if zebras are black animals with white stripes or white animals with black stripes, illustrates the importance of:

With all the different perspectives available to psychologists, Janet, a graduate student, wants to review each one carefully because:

The behaviorist perspective involves examining:

The degree to which the findings from a laboratory study are due to the manipulation of the independent variable reflects the study's:

Head Start has important social policy implications.Briefly describe your designs for both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study to determine if it is an effective program.Finally, discuss what the best approach would be for determining if Head Start is effective in the short and long term.

An advantage near-infrared spectroscopy has over other methods of imaging for infants is that it:

Eight-year-old Judy was brought to Dr.Jones's clinical psychology practice by her parents for an assessment of her phobia of the dark.Dr.Jones decides to assess Judy's fear by giving her a widely recognized IQ test that has established consistency using test-retest methods.Dr.Jones's choice of assessment in this instance would be:

Changes within a culture over time that lead to differences among your study groups are especially a problem for: