Lifespan Development
Week Week 10 Week 4 Week 8
Column
Unit/Module Chapter 9 Unit 3 Unit 4
Research Method in Developmental Psychology
Involuntary or Obligatory Responses
Infants have limited motor control
Habituation: infants are presented with a stimulus such as a photograph of a face over and over aga
bored with it
Dishabituation: when participants demonstrated increased attention to a new stimulus after having b
different stimulus
Object Permanence: the understanding that objects exist even when they cannot be seen or heard
Solidity Principle: the idea that two solid objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time
Voluntary Responses
Recall Memory: memory of past events or episodes
Elicited Imitation: a behavioral method used to examine recall memory in infants and young childr
Psychological Responses
Psychophysiological
Event-Related Potentials (ERP's): recorded by fitting a research participant with a stretchy ca
small sensors or electrodes
Parent-Report Questionnaires
Child-Behavior Checklist (CBCL): questions about child strengths, behavior problems, and di
things
Interview Techniques
Vignette: short story describing a moral dilemma
Research Designs Longitudinal Design
Research Method: the tools that are used to collect examining behavior in the sam
information over time (months to years to d
Research Design: the strategy or blueprint for deciding Attrition: when participants f
Week Week 10 Week 4 Week 8
Column
Unit/Module Chapter 9 Unit 3 Unit 4
Research Method in Developmental Psychology
Involuntary or Obligatory Responses
Infants have limited motor control
Habituation: infants are presented with a stimulus such as a photograph of a face over and over aga
bored with it
Dishabituation: when participants demonstrated increased attention to a new stimulus after having b
different stimulus
Object Permanence: the understanding that objects exist even when they cannot be seen or heard
Solidity Principle: the idea that two solid objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time
Voluntary Responses
Recall Memory: memory of past events or episodes
Elicited Imitation: a behavioral method used to examine recall memory in infants and young childr
Psychological Responses
Psychophysiological
Event-Related Potentials (ERP's): recorded by fitting a research participant with a stretchy ca
small sensors or electrodes
Parent-Report Questionnaires
Child-Behavior Checklist (CBCL): questions about child strengths, behavior problems, and di
things
Interview Techniques
Vignette: short story describing a moral dilemma
Research Designs Longitudinal Design
Research Method: the tools that are used to collect examining behavior in the sam
information over time (months to years to d
Research Design: the strategy or blueprint for deciding Attrition: when participants f
