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1.Curiosity
2. Hypothesis
3. Test
4. Conclusion |
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| Ecological-Systems Approach |
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Microsystems
Exosystems
Macrosystems
Chronosystems
Mesosystems |
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| Growth and change that occur in a person's body. Motor skills |
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| Mental processes that a person uses to obtain knowledge or to think about the environment. Perception, imagination, judgment, memory, language |
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| Development of emotion, temperament, and social skills. Fam, friends, and cultural differences influence it. EX appropriate sex roles etc. |
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| Correlation between levels of MAOA and maltreatment from parents |
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| Prevailing assumptions, critical public events, current technologies, popular trends that shape lives & thoughts of individuals living in that period |
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| set of shared values, attitudes, customs, & physical objects maintained by people in a specific setting as part of design for living one's daily life |
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Collection of people who share background characteristics such as national origin, religion, upbringing, & language & have similar beliefs, values, & cultural experiences.
o |
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| Shared biological traits (skin coloring, facial features, body type, etc) - but may have different ethnic (attitude & experiences) backgrounds |
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| ISSUES TO CONSIDER for Scientific Method |
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1. Validity - do we measure what we say we are measuring
2. Reliability - is our measure accurate
3. Generalizability - do observations apply to other populations & situations
4. Usefulness - can our results apply to real life situations |
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| Same group of children at different points in time. Results similar as with cross-sectional research. |
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1. Child has rights that supersede the investigator
2. Respect child's freedom to choose to participate or not, and to discontinue at any time.
3. Obtain informed consent of parent or guardian
4. Use no research operation that may harm the child physically or psychologically. |
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| Focus on many specific contexts of development w/o locating in given ecosystem. |
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