CD 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naturalistic Observation

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Child Development
• Course: CD 305
• Professor: Marta Block

Document Summary

Goals of developmental research: basic research. Advance scienti c knowledge of human development: applied research. Answer practical questions to improve children"s lives and experience: bene ts society by gaining info to solve speci c problems, action research. Provide data to make social-policy decision: aimed at legislator/government of cials. Criteria for developmental research: objectivity, reliability. All four of these need to be met if it is to be considered good research". Methods for data collection: naturalistic observation. Positive: most real picture of that child"s characteristics, very available. Monday, april 10, 2017: a lot of variables, not necessarily replicable, clinical interview. When the occurrence of one event depends upon the occurrence of a prior event: correlation. A relationship in with differences in one factor are associated with the difference in another. Positive correlation: the variables increase or decrease together. Negative correlation: as one variable increase the other decreases, correlation does not imply causation. Same subjects over long period of time: cross-sectional design.