Chapter 1 Developmental psychology

What is the term given to the elements of human development that are influenced by genetic factors

Maturation

What is the study design that takes samples from different groups of people at different ages respectively?

Cross sectional

What is the study design that takes samples from the same person(s) over a pronged period of time?

Longitudinal

What is a critique of cross sectional studies?

You cannot see the continuity between the age ranges

Name a famous longitudinal study that recruited 14000 pregnant mothers

ALSPAC

What is a critique of longitudinal studies?

Very time consuming and expensive

Whats the term given to participants that drop out of a longitudinal study due to finding the questions too hard?

Participant attrition

What bias can participant attrition cause in longitudinal studies?

Selective survivorship

What design of study examines change over a short period of time but takes a high volume of a samples?

Micro-genetic

What is a strength of micro-genetic studies that cannot be seen in other study designs?

Micro-genetic directly observes change

What are two issues that impact longitudinal and cross-sectional studies?

Time between measures and cohort affects

What study design contains elements from both longitudinal and cross-sectional designs?

Sequential

What type of research method records behavior without influencing the environment?

Observational

What type of observational research records behavior at frequent intervals over a period of time?

Time sampling

What type of observational research records behavior at specific points of interest (EG arguments between peers)?

Event sampling

What type of observational research records behavior then changes the environment to understand the behavior better?

Clinical method

Who was the famous psychologist who f*cking loved the clinical observational method?

Piaget

What type of research controls the environment as an independent variable then records behavior?

Experimental

Who pioneered the experimental study that looked at infants and their perception of pictures as real objects?

Judy DeLoache

What form of research uses quantitative tests to understand behavior?

Psychological testing

What is important to have in psychological testing in order to have comparable results and to ensure that there is a plausibly different behavior being observed?

A control group

What type of correlational study measures the both variables at the same time?

concurrent

What is a Neurodevelopmental method can aid in the solicitation of behavior at the neural level?

Marker tasks

What is the term given to results that have relevance to the real world?

Ecological validity

Why do we use developmental functions?

To help us predict typical trends in development

What are the five most common functions in developmental psychology?

Continuous incr, Continuous decr, Step, U-shape up, U-shape down