PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Miscarriage, Central Nervous System, Intellectual Disability
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Overview designs for examining development: methods for studying preverbal infants, major research measures, ethical concerns. Designs for examining development: cross-sectional design, longitudinal design, sequential design (combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, microgentic design (studying behavior in transition) 2: cannot reveal stability of individual differences (eg. will child be smarter later on in life) Longitudinal design: same participants observed repeatedly over time, time period may be brief (6 months 1 year, sometimes decades, cons: time consuming, expensive, subject loss (tracking them down or they die) Methods for studying preverbal infants: infants are difficult participants! 1) cannot differentiate 2) don"t have image preference. Use a different method to follow up when preferences fail . Introduce a new stimulus regain attention & looking time: show baby a repeated stimuli until they become bored and lose interest , this tells us . They can tell the differences between the two: eg.
