Exam 2: Research Strategies

In a sequential design,

Ethnographies reveal that immigrant parents view __________ as the surest way to improve life chances.

Dr. Clinton measures children's intelligence ahead of time and then assigns an equal number of high- and low-scoring children to each treatment condition. Dr. Clinton is using

In a__________ design, researchers can identify common patterns as well as individual differences in development because it tracks the performance of each person over time.

__________ permits greater control over the research situation than does __________.

Sometimes researchers combine __________ with __________ to deliberately make characteristics equivalent that are likely to distort the results.

In a microgenetic design,

Which of the following research methods would be the best suited for studying child prodigies?

To be __________, observations and evaluations of people's actions cannot be unique to a single observer.

Dr. Lector provides a full picture of a convicted criminal's psychological functioning by combining interviews, observations, test scores, and neurobiological assessments. Which of the following information-gathering methods is Dr. Lector likely using?

A neuroimaging technique that works well in infancy and early childhood is

Dr. Jenka wonders if the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have heightened children's fears and anxieties. This is an example of a

Which of the following statements is true about cohort effects?

In a series of studies on infants of diabetic mothers, Charles Nelson and his collaborators used __________ to assess young infants' memory performance.

When researchers need information on only one or a few kinds of behavior, an efficient procedure is

An intelligence test has high reliability if

Compare and contrast structured observation and structured interviews, noting the strengths and limitations of each.

Describe ethnography, noting its strengths and limitations.

A __________ is a prediction of behavior drawn directly from a __________.

Researchers reported that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata for a few minutes just before taking a test of spatial reasoning abilities did better on the test than students who took the test after listening to relaxation instructions or sitting in silence. The gain in performance, widely publicized as the "Mozart effect,"