Week 1- Intro Flashcards
1
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Designs to measure development
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- Cross-sectional
- Longitudinal design
- Microgenetic design
2
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What’s a cross sectional design
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Compare children of different ages at a single time
3
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What’s a longitudinal design
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- Compare children to themselves
- Children examined repeatedly over long periods of time
4
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What’s a Microgenetic design
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-Children are observed intensively over a short period of time -Change occurs in this period
5
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Evaluate a cross-sectional design
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+ Faster
+ Can identify differences between ages
- Uninformative about continuity of development over time
- Uninformative about individual differences within a cohort
6
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Evaluate a longitudinal design
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\+ Watch development unfold \+ Can examine the stability of individual differences over time and individual patterns of change - Practice effects - Attrition rates and bias - Expensive and takes a long time
7
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Evaluate Microgenetic designs
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+ Very detailed
+ Intensive observation can clarify process of change as it occurs
- Must know when change will happen
- No long term data about change patterns
-Narrow in focus
