Child Development
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chocobunns on October 31, 2011
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Chapter 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 age-history confound | in longitudinal studies, the co-occurrence of historical factors with changes in age; affects the ability to interpret results |
| case study | in-depth description of psychological characteristics and behaviors of an induvidual, often in the form of a narrative |
| clinical method | flexible, open-ended interview method in which questions are modified in reactions to the child's response |
| cohort effect | all the acharacteristics shared by induviduals growing up in a specific social and historical content |
| correlation coefficient | statistical measure, ranging from +1.00 to -1.00, that summarizes the strength and direction of the rrelationship between two variables; does not provide |
| correlational study | study that assesses whether changes in one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in another variable |
| cross-cultural study | study that compares induviduals in different cultural contexts |
| cross-sectional study | study in which induviduals of different ages are examined at the same point in time |
| debriefing | providing research participants with a statement of the true goals of a study after initally decieving them or omitting information about its purposes |
| dependent variable | behavior that is measured; suspected effect of an experimental manipulation |
| ethnography | study methods, including observations and interviews, used by researchers to describe the behaviors and underlying meaning systems with a a given culture |
| experimental design | research method in which one or more independent variables are manipulted to determine the effect on other, dependent variables |
| field experiment | study in which the experiment manipulations are carried out in a natural setting |
| independent variable | variable manipulated by the experimenter; the suspected cause |
| informed consent | participant's formal acknowledgment that he or she understands the purposes, procedures, and risks of a study and agrees to participate in it |
| longitundinal study | research in which the same participants are repeatedly tested over a period of time, usually years |
| meta-analysis | statistical examination of a body of research studies to assess the effect of the common central variable |
| microgenetic study | a research approach in which close observations are made of the induvidual child's behavior from one trial to the next |
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