Download Term 1: Definitions in Developmental Psychology and Research Methods and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Cognitive Development DEFINITION 1 A major domain of development that involves changes in mental activity, including sensation, perception, memory, thought, reasoning, and language. TERM 2 Culture DEFINITION 2 The social heritage of a people- those learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting that are transmitted from one generation to the next. TERM 3 Development DEFINITION 3 The orderly and sequential changes that occur with the passage of time as an organism moves from conception to maturation to death. TERM 4 Developmental Psychology DEFINITION 4 The branch of psychology that investigates how individuals change over time while remaining in some aspects the same. TERM 5 Ecological Approach DEFINITION 5 Bronfenbrenner's system of understanding development, according to which the study of developmental influences must include the person's interaction with the environment, the person's changing physical and social settings, the relationship among those settings, and how the entire process is affected by the society in which the settings are embedded. TERM 6 Emotional-Social Development DEFINITION 6 (A.K.A- psychosocial development) A major domain of development that includes changes in an individual's personality, emotions, and relationships with others. TERM 7 Growth DEFINITION 7 The increase in size that occurs with age TERM 8 Learning DEFINITION 8 The more or less permanent change in behavior that results from the individual's experience in the environment across the entire life span. TERM 9 Physical Development DEFINITION 9 Changes that occur in a person's body, including changes in weight and height; in the brain, heart, and other organ structures and processes; and in skeletal, muscular, and neurological features that affect motor, sensory, and coordination skills. TERM 10 Social Norms DEFINITION 10 Standards and expectations that specify what constitutes appropriate and inappropriate behavior for individuals at various periods in the life span. TERM 21 Event Sampling DEFINITION 21 A research technique of recording a class of behaviors observed at specific time intervals. TERM 22 Selective Attrition DEFINITION 22 theory that individuals who drop out of a study tend to be different from those who remain in a study. TERM 23 Time Sampling DEFINITION 23 An observational technique that involves counting the occurrences of a specific behavior over systematically spaced intervals of time. TERM 24 Confounding DEFINITION 24 A variable that may occur in research when the elements under study are mingled so they cannot be distinguished or separated. TERM 25 Extraneous Variables DEFINITION 25 Factors that can confound the outcome of an experiment, such as the age and gender of the subjects, the time and day the study is conducted, the educational levels of the subjects, the setting for the experiment, and so on. TERM 26 Informed Consent DEFINITION 26 An ethical standard, established by the American Psychological Association. that requires the researcher to inform each subject about the research study and obtain from each subject his or her voluntary, written consent to participate in a research study. TERM 27 Right to Privacy DEFINITION 27 An ethical standard established by the American Psychological Association requiring that researchers keep confidential all their records of behaviors or info about research participants.
