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Define Development
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Changes over time, across the entire life span
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Define Physical Growth
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Development of organs in prenatal period, growth in size and changes in functioning in childhood, adolescence and declines and alterations in functioning with advanced age.
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Define cognitive development
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Concept of intelligence as wella s moral reasoning, language development, memory, ability to learn to read, write and do math.
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Social/Emotional development
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temperament(styles of responding) Personality (deeply ingrained habits we are born with) socialization into a particular social/emotional group.
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Characteristics of Lifespan Development
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1. Multidimensional: Physical, Cognitive, emotional, personality.
2. Age-Graded: Designated roles based on age (when start school, get drivers license etc.) 3. History Graded: Influenced by historical events in time. 4. Non-Normative: Winning the lottery, getting cancer working at WTC on 9-11 |
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What typesd of experiments are there
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1. Scientific
2. Naturalistic 3. Field 4. Controlled |
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What are scientific experiments?
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Where you formulate a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw a conclusion and make findings available to others.
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What are naturalistic experiments?
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Where you watch people in natural settings and record the info. No manipulation of the setting.
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What are field experiments?
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Natural settings with some manipulation or control over variables such as special instructions given to some students but not to others, then testing the students and observing the scores.
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What are controlled experiments?
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Done in a lab with much greater control over extraneous variables. Drawback though is that lab is not like real life and the answers may not apply to other settings.
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Name and define the variables.
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Independent: Manipulated by the experimenter.
Dependent: Outcome measures of interest. Confounding: Things that might affect the result in un-anticipated ways or not controlled for in the design experiment (such as a flu epidemic at a school where students are being tested) |
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Types of data collection
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Cross Sectional: Groups studied at one point in time.
Longitudinal: Groups studied at many points in time. Sequential: Combo of cross sectional and longitudinal. |
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What is data analysis?
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Statistical procedures used to make sense of the findings of a study
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What is informed consent?
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Completely understanding what one is consenting to.
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Define Ethology
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Refers to the idea that the behavior is largely influenced by biological factors, particularly evolutionary behaviors.
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