PSY 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Confounding, Twin, Zygote
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Development: age-related changes that occur in out bodies, minds, and social functioning from conception to death (279) Developmental psychology: examines age-related physical, cognitive and socioemotional changes across a lifespan. examining changes in development to understand triumphs and struggles of typical people (279) Critical period: specific time when an organism is sensitive to environmental factors and certain behaviors/abilities are shaped/altered by events/experiences. Cross sectional: a research method that examines people of different ages at a single point in time. Cohort effect: this is a type of confounding variable. This effect comes from when there is a shared or common experience within a group the same age range that could impact the research study. Longitudinal method: follows one group of people over a long period of time. Cross sequential: a research method that follows people of different ages across a period of time. Androgens: the male hormones that are secreted by testes, but also in adrenal glands in females and males.
