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Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members.
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- View your signed in personal account and access account management features.
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Institutional account management
For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.
FMLY 1010 KEYWORDSUNIT 1: INTRODUCTIONApplied research: research meant to provide practical solutions to immediate problems.Behaviour modification: a formal technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviours and decreasing the incidence of wanted ones.Behavioural perspective:the approach suggesting that the keys to understanding development are observable behaviour and outside stimuli in the environment.Bioecological approach:the perspective suggesting that different levels of the environment simultaneously influence individuals.Case studies:studies that involve extensive, in-depth interviews with a particular individual or small group of individuals.Classical conditioning:a type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response.Cognitive development:development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person’s behaviour.Cognitive neuroscience approach:the approach that examines cognitive development through the lens of brain processes.Cognitive perspective:the approach that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world.Cohort:a group of people born at around the same time in the same place.Contextual perspective:the theory that considers the relationship between individual and their physical, cognitive, and social worlds.
Continues change:gradual development in which achievements at one level build on those of previous levels.Correlational research:research that seeks to identify whether an association or relationship between two factors exists.Critical period:a specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli are necessary for development to proceed normally.Cross-sectional research: research in which people of different ages are compared at thesame point in time.Dependent variable:the variable that researchers measure in an experiment and expect to change as a result of the experimental manipulation.Discontinuous change: development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behaviour that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behaviour at earlier stages.Evolutionary perspective:the theory that seeks to identify behaviour that is a result of our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.Experiment:a process in which an investigator, called an experimenter, devises two different experiences of participants.Experimental research:research designed to discover casual relationships between various factors.Field study: a research investigation carried out in a naturally occurring setting.