Exam 1: Seciton 3: Introduction

What is the only research method that can establish a cause-and-effect relationship?

After posing a question, a researcher using the scientific method _____.

A correlation is considered to be negative if _____.

Dr. Towne believes that heredity is primarily responsible for personality traits. Dr. West believes that environmental influences are primarily responsible for personality traits. They are on different sides of the _____ debate.

What is an independent variable?

Between 1957 and 1961, many pregnant women took thalidomide to alleviate morning sickness; this drug disrupted a(n) _____ period of prenatal development.

Which is an example of the influence of nature?

Empirical evidence is based on _____.

Which developmentalist was the first to describe the interaction between culture and education?

In Bronfenbrenner's ecological-systems model, family and peers are part of a person's _____.

Genes alone do not determine development, but rather environmental forces also shape development, which has led to the understanding that many human characteristics are _____.

Dr. Hernandez predicts that a certain drug will help patients with schizophrenia. Her prediction is called _____.

Bobby did not learn to read until he was an adolescent. When he did learn to read it was much harder for him to learn and it took him longer to learn to read. If Bobby had learned to read during the early childhood years into the middle childhood years he would have had an easier time learning to read. Bobby had a hard time learning to read because he did not learn to do so during the _____ period.

From an ethical stance, researchers should choose topics of study that _____.

Differential sensitivity means that certain people have genes that _____.

When a researcher wants to determine the cause of a particular behavior, the appropriate research method to use is a(n) _____.

Dwayne was born to a single mother living in Chicago. Within the context of the ecological-systems approach, knowing this fact allows one to know something about his _____.

High school classmates are part of the same _____.

What term did Bronfenbrenner use to describe the impact of the specific time in history on a person's development?

Participants in a research study must understand and agree to the research procedures and also be made aware of any potential risks associated with the research participation. This process is known as _____.