01:830:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Malnutrition, Joint Attention, Synaptic Pruning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Margaret Ingate

Document Summary

Nature- our biological endowment; genes we receive from our parents. Nurture-physical and social environment that influence our development, including the womb during the prenatal period. Discontinuous development- sudden changes (ex: caterpillar cocoon butterfly) Stage theories- development occurs in a progression of distinct age-related stages; a child"s entry into a new stage involves sudden changes that affect the child"s thinking. Test-retest reliability- measures of a child"s performance on the same test under the same conditions are similar on two or more occasions. Validity- the degree to which it measures what it is intended to measure. Internal validity- refers to whether effects observed within experiments can be attributed with confidence to the conditions that the researcher is testing. Structured interview- self reports on the same topics from everyone being studied. Clinical interview- useful for obtaining in-depth info about an individual child. Naturalistic observation- examination of on-going behavior in an environment no controlled by the researched.