Psy 357 - Study Guide Quiz 1 (Viorela Monk) GCU Exam Guide 2024

Define human development. - The multidisciplinary study of how people change and how they remain the same over time. What does human development research examine? - What recurring issues of development have scholars addressed throughout history? What are the basic forces in the biopsychosocial framework? How does the timing of these forces make a difference in their impact? How does neuroscience enhance understanding of human development? This is the difference between nature vs. nurture. - Is it influence of heredity vs. environment? This is the difference between continuity vs discontinuity. - Does development smoothly progress or shift abruptly? This is the difference between universal vs context-specific development. - Is there just one or multiple ways in which development occurs? What are the basic forces in human development? - Biological forces Psychological forces Sociocultural forces Lifecycle forces Define Biological forces. - Genetic, health-related Define Psychological forces. - Cognitive/perceptual, emotional, personality Define Sociocultural forces. - Societal, cultural, ethnic, interpersonal Define Lifecycle forces. - Identical events, different age groups Define neuroscience. - the study of the brain and nervous system, especially in terms of brain-behavior relationships What does systemic observation consists of? - Naturalistic observation "Real-life" observations Structured observation Researchers create a situation likely to result in the type of behavior in which they are interested studying For example, in a research lab Define reliability. - The degree to which the particular way researchers measure a given variable is likely to have consistent results If you took the same test twice, would it give you the same score? Define validity. - Does this accurately measure the variable of interest? For example, are IQ tests true measures of what people think of as intelligence? Define populations. - Broad groups of people in which researchers may be interested Example: American 17-year-olds Define sample. - A subset of people chosen to well represent the population Example: randomly selecting 100 high school students from areas with high SES diversity What is an experimental study? - Examines the possible "cause and effect" relationship between two variables