Researchers do not have to worry about ethical considerations when designing an experiment.
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Question 2Which of the following contribute to memory among young children?
a. interest level c. availability of reminders or retrieval cues
b. what the child is asked to remember d. all of these
Question 3Cross-sequential research combines the longitudinal and cross-sectional research methods.
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Question 4Gina is three-years-old. She can tell you that before going to bed, she puts her pajamas on, brushes her teeth, and hears a story. Gina's account of this repeated event is called:
a. scaffolding. c. appearance-reality distinction.
b. recognition memory. d. a script.
Question 5The cohort effect is a potential problem in cross-sectional research.
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Question 6By the age of __ year/s, children can remember events that occurred at least one and one-half years earlier.
a. 1 c. 3
b. 2 d. 4
Question 7It is rare for subjects to drop out of long-term longitudinal research.
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Question 8In an experiment with an eraser that looked like a cookie, researchers Majorie Taylor and Barbara Hort found that children age 3 to 5:
a. could mentally represent the eraser as also being a cookie.
b. could mentally represent the eraser as looking like a cookie.
c. could not mentally represent the eraser as being an eraser.
d. could mentally represent the eraser as looking like a cookie.
Question 9Longitudinal research studies the same individuals over time.
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