Psych 1004 Exam 2 Harrison Virginia
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Focus of Childhood Psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Childhood and the
behavior of children
focus of developmental psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔full lifespan
Research Techniques (3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. cross-sectional
2. longitudinal
3. cross sequential design
cross sectional research hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔age difference
is age difference a developmental question? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔no
Major flaw of cross-sectional research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The cohort effect -
different age groups have different experiences
Longitudinal research hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔age changes
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,cross-sectional sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔different ages (a cross
section of ages)
longitudinal sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔same people across a time
frame
problems with longitudinal research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- costly
- reactivity effect (people change over time)
- attrition (weakening)
- instrumentation (technology use)
- choice of measures
- the cohort effect
Cross sequential design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔measurement and quantifies the
cohort effect
cross sequential design sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cross sectional
group of 1 year becomes longitudinal group in a few years
two meta-theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature v nurture
empiricist (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
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, John Locke (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
human mind at birth is a "tabula rasa" (blank slate) (nature or nurture) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔nurture
focus on life experiences (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
development = learning, smooth and continuous process (continuism)
(nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
rationalist (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
Descartes and Kant (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
human mind has innate ideas even at birth (nature or nurture) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔nature
focus on maturation (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature -
maturation is biological unfolding - "its in your DNA"
development = maturation, abrupt, and biological changes (stages) (nature
or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
is environments effect on the individual (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔nurture
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Focus of Childhood Psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Childhood and the
behavior of children
focus of developmental psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔full lifespan
Research Techniques (3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. cross-sectional
2. longitudinal
3. cross sequential design
cross sectional research hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔age difference
is age difference a developmental question? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔no
Major flaw of cross-sectional research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The cohort effect -
different age groups have different experiences
Longitudinal research hypothesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔age changes
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,cross-sectional sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔different ages (a cross
section of ages)
longitudinal sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔same people across a time
frame
problems with longitudinal research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- costly
- reactivity effect (people change over time)
- attrition (weakening)
- instrumentation (technology use)
- choice of measures
- the cohort effect
Cross sequential design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔measurement and quantifies the
cohort effect
cross sequential design sample size - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cross sectional
group of 1 year becomes longitudinal group in a few years
two meta-theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature v nurture
empiricist (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
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, John Locke (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
human mind at birth is a "tabula rasa" (blank slate) (nature or nurture) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔nurture
focus on life experiences (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
development = learning, smooth and continuous process (continuism)
(nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nurture
rationalist (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
Descartes and Kant (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
human mind has innate ideas even at birth (nature or nurture) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔nature
focus on maturation (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature -
maturation is biological unfolding - "its in your DNA"
development = maturation, abrupt, and biological changes (stages) (nature
or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nature
is environments effect on the individual (nature or nurture) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔nurture
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