Theorists of Development
This theorist thinks that your behavior is due to your subconscious mind
Who is Freud?
This research design can tell you about causation
What is experimental design
What are chromosomes?
You want your child to eat his peas, so you tell him that he will get dessert if he eats his peas. Your parenting is based on ________'s theory.
Who is Skinner?
Dr. Spinrad wants to know the average number of hours that students watch TikTok. This is an example of a ___________ study.
What is a descriptive study?
This type of gene is only expressed if there are two of them (a pair)
What is a recessive gene?
This person is known as the infant who was traumatized by Watson
Who is Little Albert?
If a researcher showed that the number of chili peppers a professor received on RateMyProfessor was linked to how "easy" the class was perceived, the researcher would be using a _________ design
What is correlational?
This type of gene overrides a recessive gene
What is a dominant gene?
Bronfenbrenner developed this model
What is the Ecological Systems Theory Model?
Dr. Spinrad wants to study the development of vocabulary. She examines a 2-year-old, a 5-year-old, an 8-year-old, and an 11-year old and compares their vocabulary. This is an example of _________
What is a cross-sectional study?
A chemical process that "silences" one member of a gene pair
What is genetic imprinting?
Based on Vygotsky's work, this female theorist was interested in how our social contexts impact learning/development
Who is Barbara Rogoff?
The most expensive (and hardest) way to study development
What is a longitudinal study?
In Dr. Spinrad's cooking example, what did the cooking "method" (i.e., baking, frying) represent?
What is "the environment"?