Exam 2: Research Methods and Issues

A researcher finds that today's 70 year olds are less concerned about pollution than today's 30 year olds. This difference could be due to the _____ of the participants.

If you believe that changes occur all throughout human development and that those changes are quite sudden and result in qualitative differences, you would be holding the _____ side of this view of development.

If we found that memory loss was significantly correlated with the number of medications that people consume, we could conclude that

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and sequential designs used to study issues in aging.

Describe correlational and quasi-experimental research. What sorts of questions does each examine? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? When can a cause-effect conclusion be reached?

Before we can collect data from other human beings we must make sure that they

A researcher who is interested in the relationship between two variables is most likely to use which of the following approaches?

When a researcher is part of the situation that is being observed, the researcher is referred to as a(n)

The life-span developmental perspective claims that development

Before a researcher can begin to collect data, he or she must first

If you believe that our development is mostly determined by our genes and that the environment plays a very small part, you would be holding the _____ side of this view of development.

A researcher who is interested in the differences between two or more groups of people is most likely to use which of the following approaches?

Three important variables are tied together in developmental research. Which of the following is not one of these three?

The ethical standards of the APA say that research cannot be conducted unless the participants

Which of the following is not one of the major issues underlying research and theory in human aging?

A good synonym for the word "cohort" would be

If you believe that human behavior is largely shaped and determined by the environment in which a person has grown up in and currently lives in and that we have little control over our own development, you would be holding the _____ side of this view of development.

Theory is important in developmental research because it helps to

A researcher who wants to examine both age and cohort differences is advised to use a _____ design.

A researcher finds that age is negatively correlated with alcohol consumption. This means that older adults