PSYCH 3551H Study Guide - Final Guide: Object Permanence, Classical Conditioning, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3551H
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Exam 1 study guide: chapters 1 - 5. Do not try to memorize definitions, but come up with your own examples for the concepts and/or try to explain them to someone else. Chapter 1 - introduction to child development: reasons to learn about child development. Examples: enduring themes (7), nature & nurture, active child(cid:1680)children shape their own development. Play: continuity/discontinuity, mechanisms of development (cid:1679) interaction between genes and environment controls change. environment, effortful attention (neurotransmitters and training(cid:1680)genomes and, sociocultural context- bronferbrenner"s bioexological model, individual differences (cid:1679) how kid"s so dif from eachother? Scarr"s factors: research and children"s welfare (cid:1679) helps diagnose and overcome children"s problems, methods for studying child development. Contexts - interviews and observations (types): strengths and weaknesses(cid:1680) structured interviews (ask same q"s to everyone) and clinical interviews (case study) naturalistic and structured observations. Correlation and causation - correlational studies - limitations; experimental studies. Designs for examining development - 3 research designs; examples of when/why used: cross-sectional, longitudinal, microgenic.