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Dr. bookers researching friendship patterns across childhood. She has included four groups in her study: four-year-olds, six-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and 10-year-olds. This is an example of

A cross-sectional study

What is descriptive research?

Aims to observe and record behavior

Development is the pattern of movement or change that

Begins at conception and continues through the human lifespan

The ____________ Processes refer to the changes in an individual's physical nature

Biological

Ethological theory stresses_________Factors, and ecological theory emphasizes___________Factors

Biological; environmental

Ethological theory stresses___________Factors, and ecological theory emphasizes_____________Factors

Biological; environmental

Which theorist believe that development reflects the influence of five environmental systems?

Bronfenbrenner

Normative history graded influences are

Common to members of a particular generation

___________ refers to researchers responsibility to keep the data collected private and anonymous

Confidentiality

Both the behavioral and social cognitive theories emphasize

Continuity in development

Both behavioral and social cognitive theories of development assume that

Development does not occur in a stage like fashion

The__________ period refers to a time frame in a persons life that is characterized by certain features

Developmental

The perspective that does not rigidly believe in any one theoretical perspective by considers multiple theories and select the best features from each is known as_________theoretical orientation

Eclectic

Ashire does not believe anyone theory can account for all real life phenomenon. She would most likely adopt a_____________Approach to lifespan development.

Eclectic theoretical orientation

A research assistant refers to its participants as Latinos. A number of them object to the term, saying that they or their ancestors are from Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Puerto Rico, or Venezuela. What is this an example of?

Ethnic gloss

____________ Theory states that behavior is tied to evolution, it's strongly affected by biological influence, and is characterized by critical or sensitive Periods

Ethological

____________ Theory states that behavior is time to evolution, is strongly affected by biological influence, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods.

Ethological

According to___________, the presence or absence of certain experiences is especially important during specific time frames called critical periods

Ethologists

True or false the use of deception and researcher strictly prohibited by the APs ethical guidelines

False

True or false: the lifespan perspective involves sociocultural and individual factors, but not biological factors

False

True or false: lifespan development focuses mostly on the rapid growth and development occurs during childhood

False the focus of lifespan development is from conception to death

Rosa each of the following play and development are debated except

Good-evil

What are examples of biological processes that affect development?

Hormone changes of puberty, genes inherited from parents, weight gain, brain development, and cardiovascular decline

By studying life spade development we learn information about ourselves including

How we will age, who we are, and how we came to be this way

What is experimental research?

It is a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believe to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are helped constant. It aims to understand Casuality

Which statement correctly describes the lifespan in the study of human development?

It occurs throughout life, and it involves growth and change

A_____________Environment is a controlled setting for scientific observation, in which many of the complex factors of the "real world" are absent

Laboratory

Tear old Stacy and her mom, Patricia, have gone to the University to participate in a study. While they play together with some puppets, researcher watches them from behind a one-way window. The researcher is utilizing

Laboratory research

What method do researchers use when they need to exert significant control over what happens in their study?

Laboratory research

Melissa is intrigued by how people change from infancy through late adulthood. She would learn about the subject by studying the field of human development called

Life-span

What are characteristics of the lifespan perspective of development?

Multi dimensional, multi directional, lifelong

What are the issues of development

Nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, Stability and change

A_____________age graded influence is one that is similar for people of a particular age group

Normative

Most children in the United States starts school when they are five or six years of age. This occurrence is an example of a

Normative age graded influence

Which are possible reasons for the findings that happiness increases as people age?

Older people have better relationships, older people have years of experience in problem-solving, there is less pressure to achieve for older people

What are reasons why happiness typically increases as people age?

Older people have more free time, older people have more satisfying relationships, old people tend to be more satisfied with what they have

The period of development in the human lifespan are

Produced by an inter-play of biological, cognitive, and Socioemotional processes

__________ Theories view development has been primarily the result of unconscious processes

Psychoanalytic

Where can happen when researchers overgeneralize ethnic groups?

Researchers obtain samples that are not representative of the groups diversity, groups are portrayed as being more homogeneous

The father of psychoanalytic theory is

Sigmund Freud

What is correlational research?

The goal is to describe the strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics. It aims to provide information that helps to predict how people will behave

Which framework outlines how research and lifespan development should be conducted?

The scientific method

What is not a reason for conducting research and lifespan development?

To determine whether development is important

One thing that the information processing theory, Vygotskys sociocultural theory, and Piagets developmental theory have in common is that they are all ___________ theories

cognitive

Research strategy that simultaneously compares people of different ages is known as the _________ approach.

cross-sectional

What term describes the beliefs customs and general behavior patterns of a group of people?

culture

_________ Takes place after study has been completed, and participants are informed about the researchers purpose and methods used

debriefing

The traditional approach to the study of development emphasizes the

extensive changes that occur from birth to adolescence.

Which of the following is not one of the three main types of research designs?

standardized research