Exam 1: Approaching Psychological Development

Nativists believe that development:

What are the various areas in which we study development? Briefly describe these six developmental domains.

Dr.Johnson uses a white noise blast in a quiet, sterile lab room to study her participants' startle response.While the physiological and psychological data she will record will be reliable, her study will likely have less:

Dr.Smith wants to see how his treatment works on childhood depression.In his experiment, he randomizes children to a treatment group and a no-treatment control group and then examines the differences between the groups' symptoms.This type of design would be:

Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of longitudinal and cross-sectional research.

John Locke, taking an empiricist point of view, famously said that a child is a(n):

You design a cross-sectional, observational study to determine if children's tantrums at different ages are maintained by negative reinforcement (in this case, parents giving in to the tantrum behavior).The perspective you are taking in your research is:

You need to determine the similarities and differences in teens suffering from taijin kyofusho in Japan (an intense fear of harming or offending others) and social anxiety disorder in the United States.To do this, you should choose the ________ perspective.

The idea that development is associated with abilities present at birth and that human knowledge is more than an increasingly sophisticated web of ideas is associated with all of the following theorists EXCEPT:

What is a cohort effect? What is a recent example of a cohort effect and how might it bias your research?

Psychological development is broadly defined to be the:

What perspective would you be using if you investigated the similarities and differences in development across species? Explain why and include how you would rule out other similar perspectives.

Dr.Photon is conducting an fMRI study on the effects of an aspirin or a sugar placebo for the treatment of headaches.He randomizes his participants to one of the two groups, performs their baseline fMRI, gives them their medications, and then later does a follow-up fMRI.In this example, Dr.Photon's independent variable is whether:

Reviewing the body of research on the nature/nurture debates has led psychologists to conclude the cause of most phenomena is: