Environmental factors that have an influence on development.
What is nurture?
200
An attitude or value about the pursuit of knowledge that dictates that investigators must be objective and must follow their data to decide the merits of their theorizing.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
True or False: The Natural(Quasi)-Experimental Design focuses on cause and effect relationships.
What is false?
200
A research design in which participants are studied intensively over a short period of time as developmental changes occur; attempts to specify how or why those changes occur.
What is microgenetic design?
300
All children are born with a blank Slate.
What is John Locke's view of Neonates?
300
The debate among theorists about whether developmental changes are best characterized as gradual and quantitative or, rather, abrupt and qualitative.
What is continuity/discontinuity issue?
300
Piaget: Do you know what a lie is?
Clai: It's when you say what isn't true.
Piaget: Is 2+2=5 a lie?
Clai: Yes, it's a lie.
Piaget: Why?
Clai: Because it isn't right.
What is an example of clinical method?
300
The state of affairs in which the findings of one's research are an accurate representation of processes that occur in the natural environment.
What is ecological validity?
300
Age trends may reflect extraneous differences between groups rather than true developmental change.
What is a limitation to cross-sectional design?
400
Charles Darwin's way of answering questions about our evolutionary past.
What is baby biography?
400
The debate among developmental theorists about whether children are active contributors to their own development or, rather, passive recipients of environmental influence.
What is activity/passivity issue?
400
If a measure is said to be ____ then it measures what it's suppose to measure, versus a __________ measure that yields consistent results.
What is valid and reliable?
400
In a correlational study, ice cream and murder rates were highly correlated and these results might have appeared due to the weather. The weather is?
What is a confounding variable?
400
A documentary film director made a series of films about the lives of a set of children when they were 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35 years of age, i.e, the films 7-Up and 14-Up.. What type of "research design" is this?
What is a longitudinal design?
500
No parents, 6 infants, world simulation, boys and girls, no culture, personal interactions, good vs evil, love, spoken language or communication, gender roles, sexuality?
What is the Universal Parenting Machine?
500
The idea that children are inherently selfish egoists who must be controlled by society vs the idea that infants are born with an intuitive sense of right and wrong that is often misdirected by the demands and restrictions of society.
What is original sin and innate purity?
500
Provides a richer description of cultural beliefs,values and traditions than is possible in brief observational or interview studies.
What is ethnography?
500
The data obtained in artificial environment may lack generalization to the real world.
What is a limitation to laboratory experiment?
500
Two samples of children, one group born in 2000 and another born in 2002, are observed longitudinally over a 4-year period.