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This book, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students in psychology and related areas, provides a guide to the key theories and methods used by researchers. Carefully chosen articles are accompanied by a commentary from the author that helps students to understand the rationale for a study, the choice of design and assessment measures, use of statistics, and the interpretation of results. A wide range of recent research papers is included to cover observational and experimental methods from infancy to adolescence.
Experimental Research with Infants and Toddlers
Experimental Research with Infants and Toddlers
The next two chapters are concerned with experimental research in developmental psychology. The choice of experimental task is heavily dependent on the age of the children being studied so, in this chapter, I consider experimental research with children under the age of 2 years. Even within this relatively small age span, there is considerable variation in methodology. In essence, with young infants, who are unable to understand instructions or to produce spoken responses, experimenters have to rely on simple behaviours, such as sucking, leg kicking or looking, that are within the infant's repertoire. Even responses that involve object manipulation or pointing will not be within the competence of infants who are only a few ...
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