Exam 1: Basic Concepts and Methods

Dr. Rosalind Chiu has spent 5 years in northern Ontario studying children raised in either Anglophone or Francophone families to investigate differences in child-rearing practices. Dr. Chiu's work is an example of ________ research.

According to the "lifespan" perspective, _______ have/has helped psychology greatly enhance its understanding of human development.

Researchers in Canada have established a negative correlation between the temperature and the use of heaters. This means that

Charles Darwin and other evolutionists believed they could understand the developing human by keeping baby biographies.

Beginning in 1976, Jane Ledingham and Alex Swartzman began studying children living in inner-city neighbourhoods in Montreal, and they are still studying these same people, now grown adults, today. This is an example of

Developmental psychologists use the term "sensitive period" to mean

The National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth collects data on children every 2 years (1 cycle) as they grow into adulthood. A new sample of infants is added at the third cycle, and at each subsequent cycle. This is an example of a(n) ________ design.

A developmental psychologist who espouses the ideas of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau would suggest that the basis for human development is

"Older adults make more memory errors than young and middle-aged adults do." This statement is an example of "prediction," one of the goals of psychology.

A cross-sectional research study follows a group of subjects over a period of time.

Our sense of "the right time" to go to college, marry, have children, or retire is determined by our

The ________ research method would be effective in extensively studying a teacher who has superior skills in conflict resolution.

Which of the following most clearly represents a core belief of the lifespan perspective of developmental psychology?

Maria Ivosevic married for the first time at age 39, and at age 40 she is pregnant for the first time. She is now considering starting college to become a computer systems engineer. When Maria laughingly tells her friends, "I have never done anything when I was supposed to," she is referring to

A developmental psychologist who ascribes to the concept of internal models of experience would study a child's family, neighbourhood, and school in order to understand the child's development.

Genetically programmed patterns of change, such as the changes associated with puberty, exemplify the developmental process known as

The central factors in the nature-nurture controversy are

Which of the following is an accurate summary of the influences of culture and cohort upon development?

The theory that considers human development to be a complex reciprocal interaction between multiple personal and environmental factors is

Piaget's description of the cognitive stages of development and the theory he proposed to explain them became the foundation of modern developmental psychology.