Development

What is motor control?

• The use of thinking to direct muscles and limbs to perform a desired action.

• Behaviors in which individuals engage that do not require much conscious thought or effort.

• The process of remembering discrete episodes or events from the past, including encoding, consolidation and storage, and retrieval.

• Behaviors that a person has control over and completes by choice.

What is a voluntary response?

• When a participant drops out, or fails to complete, all parts of a study.

• When participants demonstrated decreased attention (through looking or listening behavior) to repeatedly-presented stimuli.

• Behaviors that a person have control over and completes by choice.

• The use of thinking to direct muscles and limbs to perform a desired action.

When participants get better at a task over time by “practicing” it through repeated assessments instead of due to actual developmental change

What is recall memory?

• A behavioral method used to examine recall memory in infants and young children.

• The process of remembering discrete episodes or events from the past, including encoding, consolidation and storage, and retrieval.

• When participants demonstrated increased attention (through looking or listening behavior) to a new stimulus after having been habituated to a different stimulus.

What are psychophysiological responses?

• Recording of biological measures (such as heart rate and hormone levels) and neurological responses (such as brain activity) that may be associated with observable behaviors.

• The process of remembering discrete episodes or events from the past, including encoding, consolidation and storage, and retrieval.

• The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be directly observed (e.g., that a pen continues to exist even when it is hidden under a piece of paper).

• Behaviors in which individuals engage that do not require much conscious thought or effort.

Dishabituation is...

• When one variable is likely both cause and consequence of another variable.

• When participants demonstrated increased attention (through looking or listening behavior) to a new stimulus after having been habituated to a different stimulus.

• Behaviors that a person has control over and completes by choice.

When minor participants are asked to indicate their willingness to participate in a study. This is usually obtained from participants who are at least 7 years old, in addition to parent or guardian consent.

When a participant drops out, or fails to complete, all parts of a study.

• Assent

• Violation of expectation paradigm

• Attrition

What is elicited imitation?

• The recording of participant brain activity using a stretchy cap with small electrodes or sensors as participants engage in a particular task (commonly viewing photographs or listening to auditory stimuli).

• A behavioral method used to examine recall memory in infants and young children.

• The process of getting permission from adults for themselves and their children to take part in research.

• A research method in which participants are asked to report on their experiences using language, commonly by engaging in conversation with a researcher (participants may also be asked to record their responses in writing).

What is solidity principle?

• The idea that two solid masses should not be able to move through one another.

• The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be directly observed (e.g., that a pen continues to exist even when it is hidden under a piece of paper).