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refers to systematic continuities and changes in the individual
Development
The ways which remains the same to continue to reflect our past
Developmental Continuities
Branch of of psychology, identifying continuities and changes
Developmental psychology
Who seeks to understand developmental process
Developmentalist
partly responsible for psychological changes such as ability to concentrate, solve
Maturation
Major goals of Developmentalist
1.Describe
2.Explain
3.Optimize development
When the instrument is measured
Validity
When a measure yields consistent info.
Reliability
method in which the research seek to understand the unique values, tradition, and social processes of a culture making observations and notes.
Ethnography -
Techniques that measure the relationship between physiological response and behavior.
Psychopsysiological methods
Gathers info. To determine whether two or more variables of interst are meaningfully related.
The Correlational design
Determine the presence or absence of a relationship between variables, can be determined by examining data with statistical precedure.
Correlation Coefficient
Cause and effect relationship, it requires an independent(The predictor) and dependent variable(the outcome)
The Experimental Design
Combines all the advantages of naturalistic observation with the more rigorous control that experimentation allows.
The field Experiment
simple explanation to the participants.
Informed consent
comparison of the possible benefit of the study and it costs to participant in terms of inconvenience and possible harm.
Benefit-to-risk-ratio
Right of the participants to concealment of their identity.
Confidentiality
right of the participant to be protected from physical or psychological harm.
Protection from harm
individual observation
Phenotype
genes
Genotype
The moment when an ovum released by a woman’s ovary otw to the uterus
Conception
is a single cell formed at conception from the union of a sperm and an ovum
Zygote
Small units of information
Genes
Carries genetic information
DNA
Made up of DNA and protein (46 chromosomes - 23 pairs)
Chromosome
Cell replicate
Mitosis
the process by which a germ cell divides
Meiosis
identical twins (develop from a single zygote)
Monozygotic twins
Fraternal twins ( mother releases two ova at the same time )
Dizygotiv Twins -
22 pairs of human chromosomes the are identical in males and females (XY for male and XX for females)
Autosomes
