PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Longitudinal Study, Structural Equation Modeling, Logistic Regression
10 Mar 2019
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Chapter 3 the study of adult development and aging: research methods. Descriptive research designs: descriptive research design providing information about age differences but not attempting to rule out social or historical factors. Cross-sectional designs: cross-sectional design researchers compare groups of people with different ages at one point in time. Sequential research designs: sequential designs consist of different combinations of the variables age, cohort, and time of measurement. The most efficient design: most efficient design a set of three designs manipulating the variables of age, cohort, and time of measurement. Include the time-sequential design (age by time of measurement), the cohort-sequenti8al design (cohort by age) and the cross-sequential design (cohort by time of measurement) Correlational designs: correlational design relationships are observed among variables as they exist in the world. Laboratory studies: lab studies participants are tested in a systematic fashion using standardized procedures, considered an objective way of collecting data.
