Exam 3: How We Study Development

You are interested in looking at the relationship between education and well-being. You decide that you will use the number of years of schooling completed as the way you will measure level of education. This step in the scientific method is called:

Professor Alsmith looks at changes in self-esteem across adolescence by measuring the self-esteem of 11 year olds, 13 year olds, 15 year olds, and 17 year olds and comparing the results between the groups. This is an example of a(n)

Which of the following precautions is specifically meant for children who are subjects in a research study?

Describe four different methods that researchers might use to assess creativity in children.

Which of the following correlations is the strongest?

When Piaget was conducting his research, he might present a story and then ask children questions about it. There were some questions he asked every child, but there also were questions that were specifically tied to the child's initial response. Piaget was using a ____________ to conduct his research.

When the results of a study are statistically significant, it means that

The unique advantage of experimental research is that it

Physiological tests (such as EEGs and ERPs) are particularly useful in research on

A disadvantage of using physiological measures in research on infants and young children is that

One important reason why a researcher might choose to collect data using observations is that

One of the advantages of doing research by using observations is that we can

A researcher who is conducting observations to test her own hypothesis may see or pay more attention to behavior that tends to support that hypothesis, so she must guard against

As part of research study, a researcher decides that she will use the number of pieces of junk mail that a family receives each week as an indicator of how wealthy the family is. If we do not have a good reason to believe that these two things are related, her measure of family wealth is

Research that has the primary goal of satisfying our curiosity and increasing our understanding of the world we live in is called:

When you find a positive correlation between two variables, it means that

When observations are carefully done and include a representative sample of children, you can determine the causes of their behavior.

If you were interested in studying what causes disagreements among friends in middle school and how those disagreements are resolved, an appropriate technique to use to study this topic would be

When a researcher combines data from different studies to determine whether there is a consistent pattern of findings across studies, she is performing a/an

In a natural experiment conducted in India that compared children of the same age who had different number of years of schooling, the researchers concluded that