PSY * D112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teratology, Caffeine, Twin
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: the scientific study of changes in people from conception until death. 8. 1 compare and contrast the special research methods used to study development a research design in which one participant or group of participants is. Longitudinal study: studied over a long period of time. Cross-sectional study: participants are studied at one particular point in time. Cross-sequential study means of a cross sectional study but also followed and assessed for a period of no more than six years. a research design in which several different age groups or. : a research design in which participants are first studied by. 8. 2 explain the relationship between heredity and environmental factors in determining development: most developmental psychologists agree that development is a production of an interaction between nature and nurture. 8. 3 summarize the roll of chromosomes and genes in determining the transmission of traits and the inheritance of disorders. Gene: section of dna having the same arrangement of chemical elements.
