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Developmental Psychology Flashcards

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1
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Who described himself as a constructivist? Freud/Piaget/Meltzoff/Locke

A

Piaget

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Which of the following are NOT stages of prenatal development

Embryonic stage/germinal stage/foetal stage/sensori-motor stage

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Sensori-motor stage (in child development not prenatal)

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Longitudinal design does NOT allow for investigation of:

Developmental change/Cohort Effect/Developmental Continuity/Individual Differences

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Cohort Effect

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Describe 2 flaws of Darwins method with his baby biography

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  • too generalised/biased

- didn’t pick up on visual abilities in children

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When might case studies be the only valid method?

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If the individual has a unique disability, ability or gift

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Which method is best used for providing NORMATIVE data?

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Cross-sectional method

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Problems with cohort effect

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Measure of spatial ability may improve and be influenced

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Diescribe a longitudical design study

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Long study with big research group; documenting development

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Describe a longitudinal design study

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Long study with big research group; documenting development

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What does attrition mean?

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Fall-out rate

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Disadv of Longitudinal design (3 things)

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  • expensive
  • practically difficult
  • dropouts
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Describe Cohort Design

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compares individuals born at different times in history at the same stages of development

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What does ecological validity mean?

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if ecologically valid; the research in labs can be related to real life

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Which design would you use to learn about the effects of historical change?

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Cohort design

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Name 2 ways of improving observational records

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  • inter-rater reliability — more than one recorder, video recorder (deals with bias)
  • ## video coding the behaviours
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16
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Types of interview

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semi-structured (allows u to obtain info more directly related to the research Q. the way diagnostics work)

open-ended (not good to draw data from)

questionnaires

17
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Which 3 things can longitudinal design investigate?

A

developmental change
developmental continuity
individual differences

18
Q

By what age do infants prefer symmetrical to asymmetrical patterns?

A

4 months

19
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Infants prefer patterns with curved or straight edges?

A

Curved

20
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At what age does preference for faces emerge?

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2 months

21
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At what age does depth perception come into play

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6-14months, will not crawl over cliff section

22
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At what age does shape constancy occur

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Newborns

23
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Perception of object at whole occurs at what age

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2 months old were aware of whole shape whereas newborn are not

24
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Empiricism meaning and examples of empiricists

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Argues for blank slate, tabula rasa

John Locke 1960

25
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Who said ‘blooming buzzing confusion’ and what did they mean

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James 1990

Meaning the idea of empiricism that infants are a blank slate, v confused

26
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Nativist meaning and examples of nativists

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Argues for innate abilities and templates

Descartes 1638, Kant 1781

27
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Constructivism

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Knowledge is continuously created not pre formed

Piaget

28
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When might eye tracking not be a useful experimental study method

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When the infant is younger than 2 months, as visual acuity is poor

29
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What can be used in infants to measure habituation

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High amplitude sucking

Sucking declines as they habituate and increases when dishabituation occurs

30
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Describe the Entrainment Study by Phillips-silver and Trainor 2005

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7mnth old infants were bounced in synchrony to one of two rhythmic patterns , preference was found for the one they had been bounced to - shown by how long they listened

31
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Explain the expectancy violation method

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Tests the ability of infants to predict by looking at their eye movements in response to a change in object sequence. Allows you to tell if the infant had learned the sequence or not

32
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Explain conditioned head turning

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Newborns turn their heads to new/interesting sights or voices, allows hearing thresholds and auditory discrimination to be tested

33
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Give an example of an experiment that used contingency or operant learning techniques

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Ribbon attached to infants wrist, after baseline a stimulus was introduced that causes singing when the infant pulls. After 8 weeks increased pulling, showing an instinctual understanding that actions have consequences, OPERANT CONDITIONING THROUGH REWARD

34
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Describe Perceptual Narrowing

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The loss of discrimination between phenomes to allow the child to focus on their own language

35
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By what age is the ability to discriminate between phenomes in other languages lots

A

12 months

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