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Question 1

the changes that occur across the lifespan, from conception to death

Answer 1

development

Question 2

what is development driven by? two things

Answer 2

maturation and learning

Question 3

what are developmentalists 3 goals?

Answer 3

1. describe development
2. explain development
3. optimize development

Question 4

What is this called and WHO came up with it: children are born full of sin, evil and that they needed to be molded by society

Answer 4

original sin

Thomas Hobbes

Question 5

What is this called and WHO came up with it: children are born knowing what is right and what is wrong
It is society that corrupts children

Answer 5

innate purity

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 6

What is this called and WHO came up with it: children are born with a clean state, they are neither good or bad

Answer 6

Tabula Rasa

John Locke

Question 7

testing a theory or hypothesis using objective and replicable methods

Answer 7

Scientific Method

Question 8

theoretical predications for an experiment

Answer 8

hypotheses

Question 9

a way of describing and/or explaining patterns of behavior

Answer 9

theory

Question 10

As part of the scientific method, measures should be what two things?

Answer 10

1. reliable
2. valid

Question 11

the extent to which a measure yields consistent results

Answer 11

reliable

Question 12

the extent to which a test measures what it intended to measure

Answer 12

valid

Question 13

are two variables related, what type of design?

Answer 13

correlational designs

Question 14

how does change in one variable influence another variable, what type of design?

Answer 14

experimental designs

Question 15

the variable that is being manipulated

Answer 15

independent variable

Question 16

the variable that is being measured

Answer 16

dependent variable

Question 17

another variable that may influence the dependent variable

Answer 17

confounding variable

Question 18

unbiased assignment of participants to conditions

Answer 18

random assignments

Question 19

What are three ways in which we measure developmental changes over time?

Answer 19

1. cross sectional design
2. longitudinal design
3. sequential design

Question 20

data from various age groups collected at one point in time

Answer 20

cross-sectional design

Question 21

measuring the same individual across time

Answer 21

longitudinal design

Question 22

studying/measuring different age groups over time

Answer 22

sequential design

Question 23

the expression of approval or agreement

Answer 23

assent

Question 24

permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

Answer 24

consent

Question 24

the tendency of some people to be more likely to drop out of a study than others

Answer 24

selective attrition

Question 25

what is relevant and true in one generation might not be relevant and true in another generation

Answer 25

cross-generlational prob