Research Methods
When a participant drops out, or fails to complete, all parts of a study.
What is Attrition?
Individuals are establishing a more independent lifestyle, not relying on parents or embarking in marriage. Their focus is on themselves and they learn to make independent decisions.
What is the self-focused age?
In classical conditioning, the stimulus that elicits the response before conditioning occurs.
What is Unconditioned stimulus (US)
?The pact of putting information into memory.
What is Encoding?
A parenting style described as neglectful, disinterested, self-absorbed.
When research findings differ for participants of the same age tested at different points in historical time.
What is Cohort effects?
Individuals are very optimistic about the various futures that are possible to them. They have high hopes and great expectations
What is the age of possibilities?
In classical conditioning, an innate response that is elicited by a stimulus before (or in the absence of) conditioning.
What is Unconditioned response (UR)
?Occurs when we acquire information without intent that we cannot easily express.
What is Implicit learning?
A parenting style described as spoiling their kids, or perhaps somewhat blind to long-term expectations for their children.
The process of getting permission from adults for themselves and their children to take part in research.
What is Informed consent?
Individuals in emerging adulthood are working to figure out who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, what they believe and value and how they fit into society
What is the age of identity explorations ?
The response that is elicited by the conditioned stimulus after classical conditioning has taken place.
What is Conditioned response (CR)
?Any type of learning that happens without the intention to learn.
What is Incidental learning
?A parenting style described as helicopter parent, dictator, unresponsive, cold .
What is Authoritarian parent ?
A research design used to examine behavior in the same participants over short (months) or long (decades) periods of time
What is Longitudinal research
?Belief system that exalts freedom, independence, and individual choice as high values.
What is Individualism
?An initially neutral stimulus (like a bell, light, or tone) that elicits a conditioned response after it has been associated with an unconditioned stimulus.
What is Conditioned stimulus (CS)
?A type of long-term memory that does not require conscious thought to encode. It's the type of memory one makes without intent.
What is Implicit memory
?A parenting style described as balanced, supportive through failures yet continuing to have high expectations .
What is Authoritative parent ?
A committee that reviews and approves research procedures involving human participants and animal subjects to ensure that the research is conducted in accordance with federal, institutional, and ethical guidelines.
What is Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
?Belief system that emphasizes the duties and obligations that each person has toward others.
What is Collectivism
?In classical conditioning, the finding that no conditioning occurs to a stimulus if it is combined with a previously conditioned stimulus during conditioning trials. Suggests that information, surprise value, or prediction error is important in conditioning.
Describes the knowledge and skills people have in monitoring and controlling their own learning and memory.
What is Metacognition?
What is Authoritative parent ?