[PSYC 223] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 77 pages long Study Guide!
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You would like to know whether college students can tell apart strangers voices? (confounding cues such as vision/ facial recognition or hearing people switch sheets) Infant testing methods: -issues with infant/child studies: comprehension, communication, attention span, hypothetical constructs, changing perceptual abilities, struggle with hypothetical constructs/empathy, motor/coordination, suggestibility (believe in right and wrong/ social management/impression management, acquiescence, ethics (cannot consent) Competence vs performance: competence as ability but can exist with poor performance (ie being overly tired) Language constraints: struggle with comparatives (ie smaller, longer); they understand quantity in ter(cid:373)s of a (cid:862)(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:374)er(cid:863) Unable/unwilling to do the task, scared of the researcher (even the way they dress ie lab coat) Child appropriateness of stimuli (too complex vs. too easy-results in inattention); rating scales require working memory. Attrition: losing subjects of study especially with longitudinal studies (ie moving, not interested) Exclusion rate: have to be excluded for activity such as parent interference, fussy babies.
