PSY 360

requires that all students take annual standardized achievement test in reading and mathematics.  The test scores judge school to determine if their students are making adequate yearly progress toward becoming proficient in these subjects.

the researcher becomes a participant in the situation in order to better understand life in that group

focuses on life within a group and tries to understand the meaning of events to the people involved

studies that collect detailed information about specific situations, often using observation, surveys, interviews, recordings, or a combination of these methods

on way of going above and beyond accommodating these learner differences to seeing diversity as an array of strengths in which to build

thoughtful and inventive; think back over situations to analyze what you did and why, and consider how you might improve

intensive study of one person or situation

a number that indicates both the strength and the direction of a relationship between two events or measurements

indicates that the two factors increase or decrease together

ie. calorie intake + weight gain

increases in one factor are related to decreases in the other

ie. cost of tickets + position from stage

research method in which variable are manipulated and the effects recorded

people or animals studied

each participant has an equal chance of being in any group

meet most of the criteria for true experiments with the important exception that the participants are not assigned to groups at random

not likely to be a chance occurance

the goal is to determine the effects of therapy, teaching method or other intervention

the goal is to intensively study cognitive processes in the midst of change

study the development by observing their subjects over many years as changes occur

focusing on groups of children at different ages

established relationship between factors

interrelated set of concepts that is used to explain a body of data and to make predictions about the results of future experiments 

a prediction of what will happen in a research study based on theory and previous research

based on data

certain changes that occur in human beings (or animals) between conception and death and remain for a reasonably long time

changes in the body

changes in an individual's personality

changes in the way an individual relates to others

changes in thinking, reasoning, and decision making

changes that occur naturally and spontaneously and that are genetically programed

heredity, genes, biology, maturation, etc.

education, parenting, culture, social policies

joint actions of individual biology and environment - each shapes and influences the other

progress is steady

there are level periods

periods during which certain abilities need to develop

times when a person is especially ready for or responsive to certain experiences

nerve cells that store and transfer information "gray matter"

responsible for complex problem solving and language - last part of the brain to develop

specialization of the two hemispheres in the brain

the brains tendency to remain somewhat adaptable or flexible

the unfolding of the biological changes that are genetically programmed

ability to act on the environment and learn from it

learning from others

the combining, arranging, recombining and rearranging of behaviors and thoughts into coherent systems

basic building blocks of thinking - mental systems or categories of perceptions and experience

adjusting to the environment

fitting new information into existing schemes

altering existing schemes or creating new ones in response to new information

the act of finding balance

earliest period involving the senses and motor activity

the understanding that objects exist in the environment whether they perceive them or not

deliberate actions to a goal