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23 Cards in this Set
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Continuity |
Development is steady and continuous |
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Discontinuity |
Development happens in set stages |
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Confounds |
Outside variable that changes result |
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Reliability |
Consistency of a study (repeated) |
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Internal validity |
Less confounds=more internal validity. How well it works |
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External validity |
How well the results can be applied to situations or people |
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Cross-sectional study |
Study over a population at one specific point in time |
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Longitudinal study |
Study over a period of time |
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Random assignment |
Randomly placing a group into separate groups so they are equivalent |
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Demand characteristics |
Participants try to beat the experiment by knowing the purpose |
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Random sampling |
A subset of randomly selected people from a larger population. A representation of the larger population |
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Operationalization |
Measuring stuff that's hard to measure |
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Epigenetics |
How chemicals change DNA |
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Mediational process |
What happens in between stimulus and response |
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Correlation coefficient |
Larger=negative |
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Correlation coefficient |
Larger=negative |
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Embryo stage |
Lasts 2 months into pregnancy |
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Cephalocaudal development |
Head develops. Body lags behind |
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Endoderm |
Internal organs |
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Ectoderm |
Skin nervous system |
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Embryonic stem cells |
Cells that can turn into any kind of cell |
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Embryonic stem cells |
Cells that can turn into any kind of cell |
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Mitosis |
Cellular division right after conception |
