Child Psychology Test 1

Lab vs. Naturalistic

Theoretical versus Non-Theoretical

Manipulative versus Non-Manipulative

Age Difference versus Age Change

Observational versus Non-Observational

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Behavior at different ages (descriptive step)

Behavior changes

Environmental factors

Dietary observation of food intake.

Variations (all children are different)

Where you go into a person’s natural environment and observe them. (But you are not in control of any variables.) You can never come to a cause and effect conclusion.

The strongest study we have. But there are a lot of things you can’t study. Might produce artificial behavior. You control all the different variables. It starts with a hypothesis. (A statement of behavior)

A lot of research is about figuring out a lot of theories, or trying to verify/refute.

A correlation that happens to relate to two things that don’t necessarily relate to each other and you can’t jump to a cause and effect conclusion.

The strongest study we have. But there are a lot of things you can’t study. Might produce artificial behavior. You control all the different variables. It starts with a hypothesis. (A statement of behavior)

When you think things and mentally trick yourself. (You need a placebo control group)

Where you go into a person’s natural environment and observe them. (But you are not in control of any variables.) You can never come to a cause and effect conclusion.

A lot of research is about figuring out a lot of theories, or trying to verify/refute.

The variable you are interested in but not directly controlled.

When you think things and mentally trick yourself. (You need a placebo control group)

The experimenter manipulates or controls

A spurious correlation

The experimenter manipulates or controls

The variable you are interested in but not directly controlled.

A spurious correlation

When you think things and mentally trick yourself. (You need a placebo control group)

Study is where you go into a person’s natural environment and observe them. (But you are not in control of any variables.) You can never come to a cause and effect conclusion.

A correlation that happens to relate to two things that don’t necessarily relate to each other and you can’t jump to a cause and effect conclusion.

When you think things and mentally trick yourself. (You need this control group)

Looking at age differences (most child psychology is cross sectional)

You just being there is going to have an effect.

Manipulating variables within the study. (Some things you can’t ethically manipulate).

A correlation that happens to relate to two things that don’t necessarily relate to each other and you can’t jump to a cause and effect conclusion.

At age differences (most child psychology is cross sectional)

Manipulating variables within the study. (Some things you can’t ethically manipulate).

A lot of research is about figuring out a lot of theories, or trying to verify/refute

A correlation that happens to relate to two things that don’t necessarily relate to each other and you can’t jump to a cause and effect conclusion.

Become stuck in any one of these psychosexual stages, if the gratification of these stages is too much or too little.

Emphasized the interactions with significant people in your life. (Lifespan theory)

A correlational study without you interfering with the variables in the experiment

Manipulating variables within the study. (Some things you can’t ethically manipulate).

The reality principle

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Phallic, Latency, Genital, Oral, Anal

Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

Anal, Oral, Latency, Genital, Phallic

Phallic, Genital, Latency, Oral, Anal

Manipulating variables within the study. (Some things you can’t ethically manipulate).

A correlational study in which you do not interfere with the variables.

A correlation that happens to relate to two things that don’t necessarily relate to each other and you can’t jump to a cause and effect conclusion.

Take a group and follow them through retests. Longitudinal data gets changes but is extremely expensive and takes a long time.

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