Exam 1: Understanding Life-Span Human Development

Reba wants to examine the TV-viewing habits of 18- to 25-year-old males in the United States. As it is quite impossible to include all males of this age group in her study, she selects a smaller group of 18- to 25-year old males to survey. The males included in her study are called a(n)

The gap between the average life expectancies for _____ have widened in the past decades.

Biological aging is defined as the deterioration of organisms that leads inevitably to their death.

When 60-year-old Madonna wore a miniskirt to a wedding, one of her friends commented, "I sure wish Madonna would act her age." This comment best illustrates the concept of

In a structured observation a researcher creates a special condition designed to elicit some behavior of interest.

Olga is interested in how people develop strategies for conflict resolution. She selects a group of preschoolers, and uses both interviews and naturalistic observation to explore their approaches to dealing with conflict. Every two years thereafter, Olga again interviews and observes this same group of youngsters, concluding her study when the children reach adolescence. Olga has been using a _____ research design.

The greatest advantage of the naturalistic observation method is that it

_____ is often cited as the most influential of the baby biographers.

The "new" period between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood is called _____ adulthood.

The scientific method is best characterized as

Vue is a developmental psychologist who is concerned with helping adolescents learn to deal constructively with divorce. Her work focuses primarily on which goal of developmental psychology?

What are age effects, cohort effects, and time of measurement effects, and how do researchers design studies to control each effect?

A factory decides to cut the pay of all its employees. This loss of pay results in Julia being unable to provide health care for her infant son. According to bioecological theory, this exemplifies the impact that events in the _____ can play on the development of a child.

While I am the fastest to conduct research design, one big disadvantage I have is that I do not generate information about the development of individuals. Which research method am I?

Measuring different age groups of subjects repeatedly at different periods in time is called a ______ design.

Diversity can be based on

Aging is most accurately defined as involving _____ in the maturing organism.

Random assignment of participants occurs in all quasi-experimental designs.

A rite of _____ is a ritual marking the transition from one age status to another.

You have been asked to conduct an experiment on whether a pill affects memory development. Please describe your experiment by identifying the independent and dependent variable(s) you would select. Discuss how the variable(s) would be manipulated.