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| What is the numonic device for the six major themes in the study of child development? |
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N.S.C.I.R.P
Never Smoke Crack In Recycled Pieces |
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| What are the six major themes in the study of child development? |
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1. Nature vs. Nurture
2. Sociocultural Context
3. Continuous/Discontinuous
4. Interactions of developmental domains
5. Risk and Resilience
6. Plastisity in Brain and Behavior |
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How does the larger social community effect our development?
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| Whether we learn in small continuous quantitative steps, or discontinuous stages in rapid transitions. |
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| Interactions of developmental domains |
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| How a childs physical growth might effect it's phsychologial growth. |
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| Risk and how we are predisposed to deal with it (Resilience) |
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| Plasticity in brain behavior |
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| To what degree and under what conditions is development open to change. |
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| What do we mean by context and how might these factors influence development? |
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| Context refers to factors that affect our development like sociocultural factors, family factors, peers, and experiences. It is the broadest spectrum of his levels of analysis framework. |
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| What is the numonic device for Davidsons Levels of Analysis framework? |
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| Cuntie Cries Now Because Moss Grows |
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| What are the six levels of analysis framework? |
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| Context, Cognitive/Behavior, Neural Systems, Brain Reigons, Molecular Mechanisms, Genotype |
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| Information Processing Approach |
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| An approach that views humans as having a limited ability to process information much like computers. |
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| Theories of development that are connected with the effects of a broad range of biological, physical, and sociocultural setting of the process of development. |
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| An organization that explains development as the emerging organization arising from the interaction of many different pricesses. |
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| Recent theories of development emphasize... |
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| Interactions between domains |
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| Captures interactions between environment and genetics |
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| What are the four main methods for data collection? |
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1. Naturalistic Observation
2. Structured Observation
3. Interviews/Questionaires/Self Report
4. Metanalysis |
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| Observing behaviors in real life settings |
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| Observe behavior in designated controlled settings |
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| Combine studies statistically to assess variable effect size |
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| What are the five main research designs? |
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1. Correlational Approach
2. Expermental Design
3. Feild Experiment
4. Quasi Experimen
5. Case Study/Single Case Design |
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| Useful when conditions do not permit the manipulation of variables, Uncontrolled can't infer causes |
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| Can isolate cause and effect, May not yeild information about real life behaviors |
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| Can isolate cause and effect, behaviors are obsered in a natural setting/Less control over treatment conditions |
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| Takes advantage of natural separation of children into groups/Factors other than independent variables may be causing results |
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| Case Study/Single Case Design |
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| Does not require large pool of participants/Can be vulnerable ot observer bias. Ability to generalize to the larger population may be limited |
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| What are the five main developmental designs? |
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1. Longitudinal
2. Cross-sectional
3. Sequential
4. Micro-genetic
5. Cross-Cultural |
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| Repeated testing of the same group of chlidren overn an extended period of time |
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| Comparison of children of different ages at the same point in time |
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| Observation of children of two or more different ages over a shorter period of time than longitudinal studies. |
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| Close observation of children's trial-by-trial preformance as they are engaged with a task |
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| Are there important differences betwen cultures? |
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| High temporal resolution, low spacial resolution |
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| High anatomical resolution, no functional data |
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| High spacial, but low temproal |
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| Greet measure myelin and improving fiber tracking |
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| Limited spacial resoltuion and temporal resolution |
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