Exam 1: Approaching Psychological Development

If you wanted to determine how children change over a 10-year period, you should use:

According to your grant-funding source, you need to incorporate a neuroscientific approach to your behavioral study.You will find competent consultants to help you perform a(n):

If Dr.Gonzalez repeats an experiment she has read about in a journal article to see if she gets the same results, she has examined the original study's:

Having two examiners evaluate the same child's responses during an activity and then comparing their evaluations for consistency allows researchers to evaluate:

You are going to do a study on infant sensation with a professor at your university.After the two of you have your study planned out and are ready to begin, you should ________ to be sure your study does not involve unnecessary risks.

You are a developmental researcher who is interested in the cognitive science perspective.You would be interested in how a:

Dr.Sanchez is investigating a new theory of speech development in infants.She begins by conducting a cross-sectional study to determine how speech progresses from infancy to early childhood.From there, she uses that information to conduct an experiment that trains several parents to interact with their infants in certain ways she thinks will enhance their speech.She then follows up on these children every 4 months for 3 years.Dr.Sanchez is using the ________ approach.

Psychologists study development for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Michelle has gone from feeling good to having a flushed face and feeling warm.Based on these early cold symptoms, you would say she has had:

An example of a global change is:

The donor funding your research has asked that you make sure your findings can apply to children of different ages.You decide to:

Take the behaviorist perspective on development.Explain your stance and how you view development progressing.

The difference between the independent and dependent variable is that the dependent variable is the variable that:

Quantitative development is described as:

Dr.Kramer studies child development by assessing and recording the same group of children every year for 15 years.She is using a:

Developmental psychologists are described as doing all of the following EXCEPT:

John Locke was a noted empiricist.Describe his approach to child development and learning.

External validity is whether the findings are:

Practice effects, or the improvements seen in participants' scores based on their familiarity with the tasks over time, are a particular problem for which constellation of approaches and designs?

To determine what causes an infant to share snacks in the lab, you would need to do which kind of study?