PSYC 2020 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Toy, Child Development, Canada
PSYC 2020
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
PSYC 2020 Lecture 1 Notes
Introduction
Cross-Cultural Designs
• Scientists are often hesitant to publish a new finding or conclusion until they have
studied eough people to deterie that their disoery is reliale.
• However, their conclusions are frequently based on participants living at one point in
time within one particular culture or subculture
• It is difficult to know whether these conclusions apply to future generations or even to
children currently growing up in other societies or subcultures (Lerner, 1991).
• Today, the generalizability of findings across samples and settings has become an
iportat issue, eause ay theorists hae iplied that there are uiersals i
human development
• Events and outcomes that all children share as they progress from infancy to adulthood
• Cross-cultural studies are those in which participants from different cultural or
subcultural backgrounds are observed, tested, and compared on one or more aspects of
development.
• Studies of this kind serve many purposes.
• For example, they allow the investigator to determine whether conclusions drawn about
the development of children from one social context (such as middle-class white
children in Canada) also characterize children growing up in other societies or those
from different ethnic or socioeconomic backgrounds within the same society (for
example, Canadian children of Asian ancestry or those from economically disadvantaged
homes).
• So the cross-cultural comparison guards against the overgeneralization of research
fidigs ad is the oly ay to deterie hether there are truly uiersals i hua
development.
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• Souza and her colleagues (Souza, Pinheiro, Denardin, Mattos, & Rohde, 2004) used a
cross-cultural comparison to examine two groups of children and adolescents who had
been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Their conclusions are frequently based on participants living at one point in time within
one particular culture or subculture
• It is difficult to know whether these conclusions apply to future generations or even to
children currently growing up in other societies or subcultures (Lerner, 1991).
• Today, the generalizability of findings across samples and settings has become an
important issue, because many theorists have implied that there are uiersals i
human development
• Events and outcomes that all children share as they progress from infancy to adulthood
• Cross-cultural studies are those in which participants from different cultural or
subcultural backgrounds are observed, tested, and compared on one or more aspects of
development.
• Studies of this kind serve many purposes.
• For example, they allow the investigator to determine whether conclusions drawn about
the development of children from one social context (such as middle-class white
children in Canada) also characterize children growing up in other societies or those
from different ethnic or socioeconomic backgrounds within the same society (for
example, Canadian children of Asian ancestry or those from economically disadvantaged
homes).
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Document Summary
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