Exam 1: The Study of Child Development

The book discusses Watson's and Raynor's (1920)study of conditioning a baby to fear a white rat.Explain why this study is considered unethical by today's standards.

In a study of school districts in the United States,researchers found that the amount of money that the districts spent on their schools had an extremely high positive correlation with the amount of money they spent on consumable alcohol (such as wine or liquor).This must mean that

When a researcher conducts an experiment,she manipulates the _____ variable.

Interviews and questionnaires are types of

In psychological studies,a representative sample refers to a group made up of

Assimilation is to _____ as accommodation is to _____.

When choosing whether to put a research participant into a treatment group or a control group,researchers should use

Studies of human development have shown that

Professor Dorinda is a behavioral geneticist.This means that she studies

The reason researchers use random assignment in an experiment is

Persephone has just read an article about infants' depth perception,and she isn't sure about the author's conclusions.She decides to do a similar study,using his methods,to see if she gets the same results.In other words,Persephone will be performing _____ of the original work.

One disadvantage of natural experiments is that

Professor Aristedes studies whether small children who are kind will develop into kindly or aggressive adults.In other words,he is addressing the basic question of

Changes in the structure of the brain are part of the _____ domain,and they effect changes in the _____ domain.

Mary Ainsworth posited that the way in which a child attaches to his parents (securely or insecurely)would predict the quality of attachment in his adult relationships.This addresses the basic question of

Accommodation is to _____ as assimilation is to _____.

A psychologist who studies changes in emotional maturity in the same 1000 people over many years uses a _____ approach to his research,whereas someone who studies the emotional maturity of five different groups of people in five different age groups all at the same time in order to compare the groups' emotional maturity levels to each other uses a _____ approach.

Dr.Venkman wants to study the effects of electrical shocks on the psychic abilities of 7-year-old children.He plans to give them a test for extrasensory perception (ESP),followed by a series of severe electrical shocks.Finally,he will again test their ESP capacity.Will his university's human research review committee consider his study ethical?

Ngozi wants to study how children defend themselves from school bullies.If he uses naturalistic observation to do his research,he will be most likely to

Terpsichore is studying whether more creative children will be more successful than less creative children.She gives creativity tests to 1000 5-year-old children,and checks their grades in school every year.She also records whether they go on to college or to work after high school,and how successful they are as adults.Every ten years,Terpsichore also has each participant fill out a survey about how happy they are.Her study uses a _____ approach.