homework 1 Flashcards
According to this week’s videos, which of the following is one way that science can be a helpful tool for parenting?
Learning how to evaluate the stakes of different decisions in raising a child
According to lecture, how did the modern study of developmental psychology begin in the 1950’s?
By relating outcomes of children to differences in parenting
At what age do chimpanzees and humans reach physical maturity?
8-9 for chimpanzees, 20s for humans
According to lecture, what is one way that misunderstanding of nature vs. nurture has arisen?
Some have wrongly assumed that the debate is meaningless, because both nature & nurture must always contribute to every trait
Approximately what percentage of US adoptions are of children from other countries?
15
Which of the following is a method to determine the effect of parents on outcomes in twin studies?
Compare concordance rates of MZ and DZ twins raised apart with similar twins raised together.
A Swedish adoption study was discussed in the lecture videos. The study examined the likelihood of drinking behavior in adopted boys based on their biological and adoptive parents’ drinking habits. Which of the following BEST describes the findings:
Children’s drinking behavior is mostly predicted by both their biological parents drinking habits and factors outside their home (e.g., their friend group)
According to this week’s videos, what is the difference between shared environment and unshared environment?
Shared environment includes any experience that two children have due to living together, while unshared environment is every other experience.
Genetics should play a bigger role in explaining variation in height in egalitarian countries than in less egalitarian countries because:
nutrition varies considerably across individuals in these countries, leaving genetics as the main source of variability.
What can you conclude from a correlation plot if the data form a circle-shaped cloud of datapoints?
an increase in one variable does not tell you whether there is an increase in the other variable
The R2 value (“R squared”) describes how strongly the correlation is between two variables, such as the height of a child and the height of that child’s mother. Which of the following is true about R2?
Higher R squared values signal a higher correlation between variables.
The Freudian and Behaviorist theories had different views of the human mind and how to understand it. However, according to Harris, they had one important commonality:
Parenting is crucial for the development of children and sets the pattern for later life.
What is the main conclusion of Prof Barner’s discussion of the Brummelman et al. paper on narcissism?
It cannot be concluded that parental overvaluation causes childhood narcissism.
In the research article by Brummelman et al. (2015), what did the Dutch researchers conclude from the first longitudinal study on the origins of narcissism in children?
The development of narcissism in children is related to parenting styles.
True or False: According to Harris, genetics accounts for almost no variation between children.
False
