FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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-Guarantee passing score -331 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What research designs do developmental scientists use to study people?

Answer:

case study, ethnographical study, correlation study, experiment

Question 2: Explain the relationship between theories, research and hypotheses.

Answer:

research creates hypotheses (predictions based on research) and hypotheses create theories (logical concepts that explain data) Question 3: research design intended to discover whether a statistical relationship between variables exists

Answer:

correlational study Question 4: Qualitative change or quantitative change: baby gains three pounds

Answer:

quantitative

Question 5: develop sense of self or feel confusion between roles

Answer:

identity vs identity confusion (puberty to young adulthood)

Question 6: Why must experiments be rigorously controlled?

Answer:

to ensure valid and replicable

Question 7: baby develops sense of whether world is good safe place

Answer:

basic trust vs mistrust (birth to 12-18 months)

Question 8: Give an example of assimilation.

Answer:

baby who goes from bottle to sucking on sippy cup (old scheme, new situation)

Question 9: A test has to be _ to measure the abilities it claims to measure.

Answer:

valid Question 10: children develop sexual attachment to opposite sex parents, aggressive toward same sex parent

Answer:

phallic stage (3 to 6 years)

Question 11: What is an advantage of laboratory observation data collection?

Answer:

provides good description of behavior, greater control than naturalistic, all participants observed under same conditions

Question 12: Why do researchers not test an entire population?

Answer:

too costly, too time consuming

Question 13: What are the two most common research strategies used to study development?

Answer:

cross-sectional and longitudinal

Question 14: a "fake" drug used as a control drug

Answer:

placebo

Question 15: What are the two contrasting models of human development?

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mechanistic or organismic Question 16: research that focuses on non-numerical data, such as subjective experiences

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qualitative data Question 17: Who discovered classical conditioning with dogs salivating with a bell ring?

Answer:

Ivan Pavlov

Question 18: What are the two kinds of associative learning?

Answer:

classical conditioning and operant conditioning

Question 19: Correlations are expressed in terms of _ and _.

Answer:

direction (positive or negative) and magnitude (degree)

Question 20: How are information processing theorists different from Piaget?

Answer:

information processing theorists do not propose stages of development, but view it as continuous

Question 21: reality principle

Answer:

realistic ways to gratify the id

Question 22: What can random selection of a research sample ensure?

Answer:

generalizability

Question 23: seek a stable balance among cognitive elements (assimilation and

accommodation)

Answer:

equilibration

Question 24: When a researcher has variables, he changes the _ variable.

Answer:

independent

Question 25: Are correlations a hypothesis?

Answer:

yes

Question 26: How is the information processing approach like a computer?

Answer:

sensory impressions go in, behavior comes out

Question 27: How do quantitative researchers arrive at sound conclusions?

Answer:

by using the scientific method

Question 28: Which person has a contextual theory for development?

Answer:

Bronfenbrenner