HOW & WHY
A way to answer questions using empirical research and data based conclusions.
What is the Scientific Method?
A number between 1 and -1 that indicates the degree of relationship between two variables.
What is correlation?
Group of ideas, assumptions and generalizations providing a framework for understanding how and why people change over time.
What is developmental theory?
A method of testing a hypothesis by unobtrusively watching and recording participants behavior in a systematic and objective manner.
What is scientific observation?
A specific prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
The environmental influences that effect the individual after conception.
What is nurture?
An extension of behaviorism that emphasizes the influence that other people have over a persons behavior.
What is social learning theory?
The researcher tries to determine the cause and effect relationship between two variables by manipulating one and then observe and record the results
What is an experiment?
The same individuals are followed over time as their development is repeatedly assessed.
What is longitudinal research?
Traits, capacities, and limitations that each individual inherits genetically after conception.
What is nature?
Holds that irrational, unconscious drives and motives, often originating in childhood, underlie human behavior.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
The imposed treatment or special condition.
What is independent variable?
Information is collected from a large number of people by interviews, written questionnaires or some other means.
What is a survey?