PSY 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14-18: Agoraphobia, Hypothyroidism, Robin Dunbar
2 Sep 2016
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Development: the study of how behavior changes over a lifespan. Post hoc fallacy: a comes before b, so a must cause b. Parents influence kids, at the same time that the kids influence the parents. Unidirectional would be parents fight and the kids responding negatively. Cross sectional design: a design in which researchers examine people of different ages at the same point in time. Cohort effects: effects due to the fact that sets of people who lived during one time period can differ from sets of people who lived in a different one. Longitudinal design: tracks the development of the same group of people over time. Where participants drop out before the study is complete, since it may take place over decades of time. Gene-environmental interaction: when the effect of one thing, depending on the contribution of the other thing. (nature vs nurture)
