Summary and objectives: How do psychologists study development?

• Define key concepts such as the stages of development, including infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and the types of development: physical development, cognitive development, and social development as well as the connection between these types.
• Identify appropriate methods of doing developmental research such as correlational versus experimental studies, longitudinal versus cross-sectional studies, observational versus self-report methods.

Links

• Giant list of cognitive biases that affect your decisions (why the scientific method is best).
• List of crazy correlations (in book form from Amazon).
• How half the findings you read could be wrong.
• The “science” behind dowsing.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development_stages
• http://www.apa.org/action/science/developmental
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_study
• http://psychology.about.com/od/researchmethods/a/correlational.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_research#Experimental_methods
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias