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What is it called when research applies to other populations
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Generalizability
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The term for when the information gathered from an experienment is true, acurate or dependable
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Reliability
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The term used when you are able to repeat an experiement and get the same results
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Replicate
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There are _____ steps to the scientific Method
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Five
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Scientific Method Step 1
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Ask a question
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Scientific Method Step 2
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Predict the answer (Hypothesis)
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Scientific Method Step 3
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Test your Hypothesis (Experiment)
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Scientific Method Step 4
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Draw a conclusion from your results
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Scientific Method Step 5
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Publish your results
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What is Collective Efficacy
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the degree to which or how neighbors create a functional network of caring people OR the sense of community
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What does Continuity mean
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Continuous or Unchanging
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What is the amygdala
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The area in the brain that houses fear
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What defines your Socioeconomic Status (SES)
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Income
Education Place of residence Occupation |
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What does SES stand for
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Socioeconomic Status
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Name the five Developmental Characteristics
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Multidirectional
Multicontextual Multicultural Multidisciplinary Plasticity |
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What is Plasticity
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the ability to change
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Each aspect of Life is ________.
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Multidirectional
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What is Resilience
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The ability to stay the same or keep you culture, the ability to bounce back
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What are the 3 domains of Human Development?
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Biosocial (biology/physical)
Cognitive (physchology/thought) Psychosocial (Socialogy/Social) |
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What is Culture
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the Values, technologies, customs, and patterns of behavior we adapt. Our "design for living"
"What we practice" |
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What is the Dependent Variable
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It needs something, it is the changed variable
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A tiny change in once are has a big effect in another. What is this called?
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Butterfly Effect
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What is the Independent Variable
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The variable that stands alone
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Define Cohort
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A groupd of people born within a few years of each other
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Define Validity
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Can something be measured
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How do scientists determine cause and effect?
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Experiments
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What are the two settings of observation?
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Naturalistic
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what is scientific Usefulness?
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Does it solve Problems?
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The science of human development seeks to ____________.
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understand how and why people-all kinds, everywhere,- change or remain the same over time
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Define Multidirectional
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change occurs in every direction, not a straight line, change happens at all ages and with all kinds of development
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What does discontinuity mean
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things that change
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What is multicontextual
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We all have mulitple contexts that we live in, such as our place in history or our economic status
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What is Multicultural
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There are many cultures in our community and in the world
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What is Multidisciplinary
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Many different fields contribute insight into our development
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What is scientific Observation
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observing and recording behavior in a systematic (there is a method involved) and objective (without interpertation) manner
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What is a limitation to observation?
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It does not tell us why people behave like they do
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What is a control group?
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The group that does not get special treatment in an experiement
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What is a survey?
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When information is obtained through question and answer format
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Why is it difficult to get valid data
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You need a truly representative group of people, People try to look or sound good, phrasing and order of questions influence answers
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Member of an ethnic group share_________
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certain attributes, usually ancestral heritage, national orgin, religion and langauge
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true or False: You do not have to be born into your ethnic group
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FALSE-People are not considered a part of an ethnic group unless they are born into it
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What defines race
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the Genetic difference in people based on physical appearance
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What is a case study
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An intense study of one person
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What are advantages of a case study?
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-Gain insight into a person
-Find a start point for other research -Illustrate general truths |
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What problem comes with case studies?
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-It may not tell truths about anyone else
-Someone else may have a different truth |
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What is cross sectional?
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Research the compares people of different ages at the same time
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What is an advantage of cross-sectional research?
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Saves times
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What are the disadvantages of cross sectional research?
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Its hard to guarentee the only difference is age
History has a different effect on each generation |
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What is Longitudinal research?
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Research that follows a group of people of a long period of time
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What are the disadvantages to longitudianl research?
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-Participants may not stay with the study
-Participants may "improve" answers to sound better if they are familiar with questions -You have to wait on the group to grow up to determine long term effects |
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What is cross-sequential research?
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When researchers first study groups of people at different ages then follow those groups for years.
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Who is Bronfenbrenner
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He reccommended the ecological systems appoach to development (the big circle)
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What does the Ecological-systems approach consider?
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the contexts and interactions that make up your life
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What are are the 5 systems involved with the ecological-systems
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Microsystem
Mesosystem Exosystem Macrosystem Chronosystem |
I before E except after C
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What is the microsystem
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immeditate surroundings (home family)
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What is the Exosystem
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local surroundings (church school work)
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What is the macrosystem
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culture, world
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What is the Chronosystem
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historical context (over time)
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What is the Mesosystem
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connections in microsystems such as a parent teacher conference.
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What is a Correlation
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the degree of relationship between two variables
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What is a positive correlation
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when two variable either increase TOGETHER
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what is a negative correlation
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When one variable increases and the other decreses (opposites)
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What is a Zero correlation
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When there is no connection between the variables
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what is quantitative research
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Research that provides quantities or numbers
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What is qualitative research
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Research that looks at qualtities or descriptions
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What is a code of ethics
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the principles that members of a profession are expected to follow
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To study anyone the scientist first needs to obtain
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Informed consent
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