PSY 230 Lecture 1: Child Psych
20 Jun 2016
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Collect data at multiple ages, analyze it, and interpret the results. Watch in a habitat that has been structured. Funding will lack if it takes a long period of time. Cross sectional design ask children of different ages, but do not wait years, use different children. Studies that take pieces of longitudinal and cross sectional designs and put them together. Can identify and statistically control cohort effects and practice effects. The phenomenon whereby a group of people are influenced by historical forces or events unique to the time and or place in which they live. Cohort effects limit the generalizability of the findings. The effect of a new drug on problem behaviors in elementary school children diagnosed with adhd. Problem behaviors as rated by teacher response to the questionnaire. Teacher should not know which children are receiving the drug. Many questions cannot be addressed using the experimental method.
