PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naturalistic Observation, Ethology
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Change over time is a primary concern (continued). Age is the variable we are interested in: (meta) analyses of studies of distinct age groups. Age is not the key variable here but look at the various different studies that ask similar questions. Exploration: to determine whether a phenomenon exists. Exploration is not a major/issue/goal in the developmental psychology unless it is something that we have not seen that much in the past, for example, children brought up by same sex parents. Description: examination of phenomenon to more fully define it or to differentiate it from other phenomena. It is like a second step after you know that a phenomenon exists. Prediction: identifying relationships that enable us to speculate about one thing by knowing about some other thing. Use a variable to try to predict another variable. So we use age to predict another variable. Two groups were used where one group was shown violent media and the other was not.
