01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Individualism, Autonomic Nervous System
18 Mar 2016
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Argentina: being able to support a family financially. India & china: being able to support their parents financially. Common: early adolescence (11-14, middle adolescence (15-18) Inborn, biological givens: based on genetic inheritance. An orderly, integrated, evidence-based set of statements that. Predicts behavior: research begins with questions. Can you think of a question in adolescent development: how does ___ change across adolescence, teenagers are/do ___, is that due to ___, does ___ in ___ adolescents influence ___, designs for studying development. Longitudinal: same participants studied repeatedly at different ages. Cross-sectional: people of differing ages all studied at the same time. Sequential: same groups of different-aged people studied repeatedly as they change ages: longitudinal. Permits study of common patterns and individual differences in development and relationships between early and later events and behaviors. Problems: age-related changes may be distorted because of biased sampling, selective attrition, practice effects, and cohort effects, theoretical and methodological changes in the field can make findings obsolete, cross-sectional.
