PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synaptic Pruning, John Money, Quasi
9 Oct 2016
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Why study children: rapid development, long-term in uences - how children can become the optimal adult (kind and harsh parenting, real-world applications when children ingest lead they develop cognitive problem. Data collection: observational research (in a regular environmental situations with little interference) Case studies (john money forcing david into brenda based on gender identity after circumcision and gender reassignment + hormones at a young age) Field observational studies (note acceptable behaviours that don"t prove bias in eld environment: correlation research. E. g. , survey studies (child"s reading/intellectual ability?, parent/teacher/peer reports) Retrospective reports will have a memory bias. Dependent variable (dependent on what factor: experimental control. Types of experiments: true lab experiments, field experiments, quasi experiments (lab or eld) Random assignment not possible on at least one variable. Thursday september 8, 2016: compounds - variables that give us an alternative, random assignment ensuring participants have, equal chance of being assigned at random.
