What are the different research desighs in development psychology?

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What are the different research desighs in development psychology?

Answer 1

Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence and more recently, adult development, aging, and the entire life span. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes, problem solving abilities, conceptual understanding, language acquisition, moral understanding, and identity formation.

Developmental psychologists investigate key questions, such as whether children are qualitatively different from adults or simply lack the experience that adults draw upon. Two important issues concern the nature of development. One concerns whether development occurs through the gradual accumulation of knowledge or through shifts from one stage of thinking to another. The other concerns whether children are born with innate knowledge or figure things out through experience. A third significant area of research examines social contexts that affect development.

Developmental psychology informs several applied fields, including: educational psychology, child psychopathology and forensic developmental psychology. Developmental psychology complements several other basic research fields in psychology including social psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive development, ecological psychology and comparative psychology.

Answer 2

cross-sectional, longitudinal, cross-sequential.....now look in the index of your text for the definition (college psych prof)