Summary An Introduction to Developmental Psychology

A snapshot of the summary - An Introduction to Developmental Psychology Author: Alan Slater J Gavin Bremner ISBN: 9781118767207

• 1 methods of developmental psychology

• how do we call the aspects of development that are largely under genetic control and uninfluenced by environmental factors?

  maturation
• how do we call a theoretical or philosophical framework of a world view?

  a paradigm
• how do we call the world view that states; people are active in interacting with their environment, and while doing so shaping their own development.

  an organismic world view
• how do we call the world view that states; a person is like a machine, passive until stimulated by the environment. stimuli result in increases, decreases and changes in behavior.

  mechanistic world view
• how do we call the world view that states; a developing child is a passive respondent of conditioning, reinforcement and punishment.

  behaviorism
• which two research designs are there in developmental psychology?

  • cross-sectional
  • longitudinal
    
  • sequential
• which research design is described; people of different ages are all tested once for a variable.

  a cross-sectional design
• which research design is described; people are tested for a variable repeatedly as they grow older. multiple measurements of one person across their development.

  longitudinal design
• how do we call a group of people that are born at about the same time, or who share other characteristics?

  a cohort
• how do we call a research design that examines change as it occurs, by testing repeatedly over a short period of time, creating a high density set of observations?

  microgenetic method