Developmental psychology Research methods

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• 1Identify the design of a cross-cultural study (3 marks)
• 2Name a confounding variable and say what it does (3 marks)
• 3Apply the imposed-etic argument (4 marks)
• 4Describe how a meta-analysis would be carried out (4 marks)
• 5Read a table of cross-cultural percentages (4 marks)
• 6Explain how publication bias could affect a conclusion (3 marks)
• 7Decide which conclusions the evidence supports (4 marks)
• 8Sort cross-cultural evidence into nature and nurture (4 marks)
• 9Design a cross-cultural study (5 marks)

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• 1Identify ethical issues in a described study (3 marks)
• 2Distinguish consent from assent in a scenario (3 marks)
• 3Write a child-appropriate information sheet (4 marks)
• 4Make the right to withdraw real for children (4 marks)
• 5Apply participation versus protection (4 marks)
• 6Make a described study more ethical (5 marks)
• 7Weigh the ethics of the Strange Situation (4 marks)
• 8Match a research practice to the right the child holds (3 marks)
• 9Explain why a meta-analysis raises few new ethical issues (3 marks)

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• 1Calculate percentages from a table of classifications (3 marks)
• 2Choose the appropriate measure of central tendency (3 marks)
• 3Interpret two standard deviations (3 marks)
• 4Select an inferential test and justify it (4 marks)
• 5Calculate chi-squared from a 2 x 2 table (5 marks)
• 6State degrees of freedom and read the critical value (3 marks)
• 7Choose and describe the correct graph (4 marks)
• 8Explain a Type I error in context (3 marks)
• 9Express classifications as a ratio and sense check (3 marks)

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• 1Choose a method for a developmental question (3 marks)
• 2Identify features of a clinical interview (4 marks)
• 3Identify the design and name its confound (3 marks)
• 4Calculate and interpret attrition (4 marks)
• 5Evaluate a task-based method with children (4 marks)
• 6Design a clinical interview study (5 marks)
• 7Spot the cohort effect (3 marks)
• 8Give a strength and a weakness of ethnographic field work (4 marks)
• 9Choose a design for a developmental question (4 marks)

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• 1Choose the right evaluation criterion (3 marks)
• 2State the direction of a bias (3 marks)
• 3Tell reliability from validity on the same study (3 marks)
• 4Evaluate the validity of the Strange Situation (4 marks)
• 5Calculate what the cross-cultural base actually was (4 marks)
• 6Establish the credibility of a qualitative study (4 marks)
• 7Assess the objectivity of a meta-analysis (3 marks)
• 8Improve a study against three criteria (5 marks)
• 9Plan an eight-mark evaluation answer (5 marks)

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