PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Informed Consent, Language Development, Cortisol

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Deepthi Kamawar

Document Summary

Passive: they are the product of the environment. Why? (cid:190) main steps: select issue/ability/question to be addressed, form hypothesis, collect data based on research, make a theory, measurment in child development research, systematic observation (cid:190) You can"t focus on every single thing going on (cid:190) must have a specific focus before doing research. Setting up situations to bring about some behaviour you want to observe. Children believe that the amount of juice changes. Strengths: measure things that aren"t naturally occurring, more control over variables, checking consistency is easy, self-reports. Particular instance of using tasks to measure reported behaviour or thoughts (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190) (cid:190: ask a child directly about topic, questionnaires/interviews. Challenges: response bias: social acceptability, less likely to result in judgment, could change response, wording of questions. Strengths: larger sample, much cheaper, physiological measures. Less common (cid:190) measuring physiological responses: heart rate (attentiveness, cortisol (stress, brain activity (not as used)