Exam 1: Understanding Life-Span Human Development

The impact on research findings produced by historical events occurring at the moment the data were collected are referred to as _____ effects.

Maturation is to learning as

In a _____ design, a single cohort group is assessed repeatedly over time.

Smoking cigarettes and having lung cancer are highly correlated events, and people often logically conclude that smoking must cause the cancer. It is hypothetically possible, however, that having lung cancer causes one to crave nicotine and thus it leads to smoking. This example illustrates the issue of

Dr. Vandepolder is conducting a study on American Midwest college students' radio-listening habits. He doesn't have the resources to survey all college students in the Midwest, so he uses census data to randomly select a group of several thousand students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota to participate in the study. In this study, the group of all American Midwest college students is called the _____, while the group randomly selected from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota is called the _____.

For her senior project, Shantae wants to study children's moral reasoning. During the Fall semester, she interviews 20 individuals in each of the follo:wing grades: first, fourth, seventh, tenth, and college sophomores. She asks each participant to solve a practical moral dilemma. What sort of research design is Shantae using?

The notion that development is impacted by the time in which we live is a key element of what Bronfenbrenner referred to as the chronosystem.

A true experiment involves the _____ of the independent variable.

The scientific method is both an attitude and a method.

A company requires employees to retire at the age of 65. This policy is an example of

The main advantage of the correlational method is that it can be used to establish cause-effect relationships.

Cross-sectional studies are better suited than longitudinal studies to the examination of individual differences.

A cross-cultural study on aggression in children from Belize, Kenya, Nepal, and American Somoa by Munro and colleagues (2000) indicated that

Who is most often cited as the founder of developmental psychology?

Who is using a cross-sectional research design?

Dr. Dré is very interested in infants' reactions to different music styles. In order to study the phenomena, he built a special lab crib containing audio speakers. He then individually brings six-month-olds into the lab, places them in the crib, plays rap music, and watches each baby's reactions. Given this description, Dr. Dré appears to be using the _____ technique.

The key distinction between a true experiment and a quasi-experiment is that in quasi-experiments,

_____ aging involves the deterioration of an organism that eventually results in death.

Cohort effects concern the impact of being born in one particular historical context rather than another.

The belief that one's own group and its culture are superior is referred to as _____.