The Science of Developmental Psychology by https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych Assignment 2 of week 1 in HGD en-us 2017-01-12 20:47:18 UTC 2017-05-17 02:42:44 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.ipharmd.net/images/science_symbol_rainbow.png Descriptive Research mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146928373 Descriptive research records behavior. It doesn't prove much.]]> 2017-01-12 21:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146928373 Correlational Research mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146929828 With correlational research scientists compare sets of data to find similarities which could show correlation, and potentially causation. For instance, if the childhood obesity rate increases in a city that has a growing fast food industry, the two may be correlated. This is not always reliable, as sometimes which event causes the other may be easily confused, and sometimes things correlate out of sheer randomness. ]]> 2017-01-12 21:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146929828 Experimental Research mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146931855 Experimental Research uses experiments (could you guess from the name?) to discover the cause of something. Scientists use a scenario with some factors that will always stay the same and some factors they can manipulate to see if they get different results. ]]> 2017-01-12 21:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146931855 Experiments on People are Hard Because... mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146935230 People are incredibly variable and each individual is completely unique one from another. This makes exact, perfect scientific data impossible to come by. ]]> 2017-01-12 21:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146935230 Simply Put mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146937976 Ethical issues can arise with doing research experiments on people because, in un-scientific terms, humans are mushy soft things. We can try to be robots and study ourselves like robots, but we just *are not* robots. People's feelings could get hurt.

]]> 2017-01-12 22:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/146937976 Theories mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/147170713 Theories hold up every principle/perspective of developmental science. Theories are ideas or guesses that have been tested and proven over and over again.]]> 2017-01-14 00:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/147170713 Differing Theories mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/147672615 Some developmental scientists view development in stages, some in a continuity. 
Neither has been agreed on by the entirety of developmental science. 

There is also debate on heredity vs. environment, "Nature vs. Nurture". ]]> 2017-01-17 20:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/thescienceofpsych/wish/147672615