This file is a set of flashcards for students to use to study vocabulary for Child Development I.

1. FLASH CARDS Chapter 1 EDU 144 Child Development I

2. A specific prediction that is stated in such a way that it can be tested and either confirmed or refuted. Click for Term

4. The repetition of a study, using different participants. Click for Term

6. A research method in which the researcher tries to determine the cause-and-effect relationship between two variables by manipulating one (called the independent variable ) and then observing and recording the resulting changes in the other (called the dependent variable ). Click for Term

8. A group of people who were born at about the same time and thus move through life together, experiencing the same historical events and cultural shifts at about the same age. Click for Term

10. People whose ancestors were born in the same region and who often share a language, culture and religion. Click for Term

12. A group of people who are regarded by themselves or by others as distinct from other groups on the basis of physical appearance. Click for Term

14. A person’s position in society as determined by income, wealth, occupation, education, place of residence and other factors. Click for Term

16. A research method in which one individual is studied intensively. Click for Term

18. A general term for the traits, capacities, and limitations that each individual inherits genetically from his or her parents at the moment of conception. Click for Term

20. The capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress. Click for Term

22. The view that in the study of human development, the person should be considered in all the contexts and interactions that constitute a life. Click for Term

24. A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in body or behavior) must happen. If this period passes without that growth, the person will never grow in that particular way. Click for Term

26. Research that considers qualities instead of quantities. Descriptions of particular conditions and participant’s expressed ideas are often part of qualitative studies. Click for Term

28. A number indicating the degree of relationship between two variables, expressed in terms of the likelihood that one variable will (or will not) occur when the other variable does (or does not). A correlation is not an indication that one variable causes the other, only that the two variables are related. Click for Term

30. A set of moral principles that members of a profession or group are expected to follow. Click for Term

32. Research that provides data that can be expressed with numbers, such as ranks or scales. Click for Term

34. A general term for all the environmental influences that affect development after an individual is conceived. Click for Term