Connect Quiz 1 Psychology
The cross-sectional approach to developmental research compares
Individuals of different ages
A group of people who are born at a similar point in history and share similar experiences as a result is referred to as
a cohort
Development can be defined as the pattern of movement or change that:
begins at conception and continues through the human life span.
In the nature-nurture issue, nature refers to an organism's ___ , nurture to its ___
biological inheritance; environmental experiences
In an experimental study the ___ group serves as a baseline against which the effects of the manipulated condition can be compared
control
Dr. Perkins predicts that children who spend years playing a musical instrument are smarter than children that do not play music. This testable prediction is known as a ______
hypothesis
On your first day of class, Professor Red-Elk claims that for too long we have focused on the development of young children, especially infants. She argues that the development of adults and the elderly people is just as important. This professor is articulating a(n) ____ approach
life span
_____ means the capacity for change
plasticity or elasticity
The longitudinal method of research consists of studying
same individuals over a long period of time
Dr.Jackson research has found that the correlation between IQ and head circumference is +.10. From this informations we can conclude that
there is a weak relationship between head size and IQ
