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refers to systematic continuities and changes in the individual

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Development

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The ways which remains the same to continue to reflect our past

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Developmental Continuities

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Branch of of psychology, identifying continuities and changes

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Developmental psychology

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Who seeks to understand developmental process

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Developmentalist

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partly responsible for psychological changes such as ability to concentrate, solve

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Maturation

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Major goals of Developmentalist

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1.Describe
2.Explain
3.Optimize development

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When the instrument is measured

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Validity

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When a measure yields consistent info.

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Reliability

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1.Self-Report Methologies

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• Interviews and Questionnaires (Series of questions)
  -Diary Study (Creative use of interviews and questionnaire) (respond in a diary or notebook)
  -The clinical method (Testing a hypothesis)

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Observational Methodologies

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-Naturalistic observation (Tests hypothesis by observing)
-Structured Observation (exposed to a setting that might cue the behavior in question
-Case studies (Gather info. Of an individual and then test developmental hypothesis)

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method in which the research seek to understand the unique values, tradition, and social processes of a culture making observations and notes.

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Ethnography -

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Techniques that measure the relationship between physiological response and behavior.

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Psychopsysiological methods

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Gathers info. To determine whether two or more variables of interst are meaningfully related.

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The Correlational design

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Determine the presence or absence of a relationship between variables, can be determined by examining data with statistical precedure.

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Correlation Coefficient

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Cause and effect relationship, it requires an independent(The predictor) and dependent variable(the outcome)

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The Experimental Design

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Combines all the advantages of naturalistic observation with the more rigorous control that experimentation allows.

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The field Experiment

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simple explanation to the participants.

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Informed consent

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comparison of the possible benefit of the study and it costs to participant in terms of inconvenience and possible harm.

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Benefit-to-risk-ratio

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Right of the participants to concealment of their identity.

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Confidentiality

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right of the participant to be protected from physical or psychological harm.

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Protection from harm

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individual observation

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Phenotype

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genes

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Genotype

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The moment when an ovum released by a woman’s ovary otw to the uterus

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Conception

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is a single cell formed at conception from the union of a sperm and an ovum

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Zygote

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Small units of information

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Genes

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Carries genetic information

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DNA

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Made up of DNA and protein (46 chromosomes - 23 pairs)

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Chromosome

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Cell replicate

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Mitosis

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the process by which a germ cell divides

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Meiosis

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identical twins (develop from a single zygote)

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Monozygotic twins

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Fraternal twins ( mother releases two ova at the same time )

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Dizygotiv Twins -

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22 pairs of human chromosomes the are identical in males and females (XY for male and XX for females)

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Autosomes