Unlike passive learning, this type of learning activity involves generating new knowledge or understanding, or modifying current knowledge.
What is Constructive
100
This type of influence is typically more abstract, such as belief systems or cultural perspectives.
What is Macrosystem
100
If your measure is actually assessing something different than what you intended, it is lacking this.
What is validity.
100
Something that negatively effects prenatal development. Examples include toxic chemicals or alcohol.
What is a Teratogen
100
The type of regulation involved when children’s systems become able to go longer between meals, or sleep in longer stretches.
What is Biological or Physical
200
When trying to determine how children learn, we are asking this type of “big question” in child development.
What is a Mechanism question
200
Parents’ workplace, family social networks, and neighborhood-community contexts are examples from this level of Bronfenbrenner’s model.
What is Exosystem
200
If you conduct this type of study on relationships, you must be careful not to make causal conclusions between the variables included.
What is Correlational
200
This set of skills have a long developmental trajectory, related to their location in the prefrontal cortex which continues development through adolescence. They include planning and creative problem solving.
What are Executive Functions
200
A parent waiting to comfort a child who falls or has a toy taken from her might be trying to promote this type of regulation
What is Emotional
300
Test anxiety can negatively impact learning and performance on a test, because the anxiety interferes with mental processing in this stage of memory.
What is Working Memory
300
The conflict between Riley’s teacher’s ideas about motivation and what Prof. Jirout knows from research on children’s motivation has the potential to be this type of influence on Riley.
What is Mesosystem level
300
If random assignment is used to assign participants to groups, this type of design is most likely being used.
What is Experimental
300
This phenomenon involves the changing of a brain’s structure based on experience.
What is Plasticity
300
A parent who creates a quiet distraction-free place for their child to study is scaffolding this type of regulation
What is Behavioral
400
This effect shows that reviewing material may be less effective than other study methods, because it is not providing practice recalling information.
What is Testing Effect
400
If you are studying the effect of context (home vs. museum) on amount of sibling conversations, the amount of conversation would be the ____ variable.
What is Dependent
400
This phenomenon can limit research findings, because the participants in the study might be different based on unmeasured variables as a result of not being randomly assigned to condition.
What is selection bias
400
The chances of negative repercussions from exposure to a teratogen depend on dosage, resiliency, ability to cross the placenta, and this.
What is Timing
400
This type of behavior shows a lack of self-regulation, and can explain why many students end up cramming before tests even though it is very ineffective for learning and bad for your health.
What is Procrastination.
500
Sometimes information can’t be remembered because it never made it into working memory, typically a result of not doing this.
What is Attending to/Paying Attention
500
This theory emphasizes the influence of a child’s effect on influences, and the different determinations of the effect of influences across levels.
What is Transactional
500
The subset of a population that is included in a research study.
What is a sample?
500
The process by which neurons become specifically capable to perform different functions.
What is Differentiation
500
When someone constantly interrupts another speaker during a meeting or similar context, they are showing a lack of this regulatory behavior.