Exam 2: Research in Child Development

In a correlational study,

The issue of population sampling is important in Canadian psychological research because

Which of the following is a weakness of self-report measures?

Mary chose to assess the quality of infants' relationships with their caregivers by observing infants in a laboratory situation wherein the infants experienced a series of separations from and reunions with their caregivers. What kind of measure did Mary use?

Alvaro is interested in finding out how children's conceptions of death change with age. He decides to interview children and ask them questions such as "What happens when people die?" and "Do people eat when they die?" Alvaro is using a form of ________ to measure children's conceptions of death.

Dr. Anderson is interested in the relationship between the number of hours her students spend watching television and their test results. The simplest way of examining that relationship would be to conduct

Irina wants to study infant language development. She decides to watch ten babies once a month from birth to two years of age and write down the sounds they make and the words they use. Irina is using

Laws and regulations that directly or indirectly affect families with children are referred to as

The variable in an experiment that is observed to see if it changes when another variable is manipulated is called the

Dr. Land conducted a research study in a preschool where he asked teachers to change their typical procedures so that he could test his hypothesis that the amount of unstructured time (free play) structure in a day affects the amount of unruliness that children display. Teachers systematically varied the amount of free play each day for a month, and Dr. Land's research assistants recorded the amount of unruliness children displayed each day. This study would best be described as a

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of a longitudinal approach?

Which of the following is not true of the relationship between child-development research and family policy?

The tendency to select socially acceptable answers is referred to as

A strength of experimental studies is that

Research measures that involve watching children's unprompted behaviour in real-life settings are referred to as

Which of the following measures involves sampling behaviour with a task?

To measure children's social skill, you decide to use the number of interactions children have with other children as your measure of social skill. As you collect data, you notice that some children who have many interactions do not seem to be very socially skilled because many of their interactions are negative. This makes you question the ________ of your measure.

Which of the following is associated with negative correlations?

A high correlation between a child's behaviour (e.g., being aggressive) and that of her parents (e.g., spanking) indicates that

If Mohammed took the same achievement test at three different times and received scores of 100, 75, and 45, the test would have low levels of