Key Terms List: Intro And Research Design

Question 1

Correlational Research Design

Answer 1

Correlational studies look at the relationship between two variables as they exist in the real world. Expressed as a CC -1 to +1

Question 2

What are the Developmental domains?

Answer 2

Social, Emotional, physical, cognitive and language

Question 3

Developmental research designs: Longitudinal Study

Answer 3

The same individuals are tested repeatedly over time, prone to attrition, expensive and can distort performance

Question 4

Developmental research designs: Cross-Sectional Study

Answer 4

Children of different ages are tested at one point of development, cannot explore continuity of behaviour, cohort effects can complicate results.

Question 5

Developmental research designs: Longitudinal-sequential studies

Answer 5

Hybrids of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, gives less info than fully longitudinal study and is more Time consuming than a cross sectional study

Question 6

Developmental time periods

Answer 6

Prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood.

Question 7

Experimental research design: IV - DV ?

Answer 7

Manipulated factor is the IV and the behaviour measured is the DV

Question 8

Lifespan Perspective about development

Answer 8

Lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional and plastic, multidisciplinary, embedded in contexts, involves biological sociocultural and individual factors.

Question 9

Observer bias

Answer 9

Researchers might interpret behaviour in a way that supports their evidence

Question 10

Observer influence

Answer 10

Participants change their behaviour because they are being observed

Question 11

Quantitative research

Answer 11

Data=Numbers

Question 12

Qualitative research

Answer 12

data=words, more common but doesn’t fit neatly in to correlational or experimental boxes

Question 13

The research cycle

Answer 13

Theory: hypothesis to be tested, consistent results and implications. Research: Goal, participants, methods, results. Application: Professional fields, real life, additional research.

Question 14

What is a theory

Answer 14

Organized set of ideas that is designed to explain and make predictions about development, created through observation and research, used to understand normative development.