Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Research Methods in Child Psychology

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				Three Canadian-based researchers who used naturalistic observation methods in their work on aggression and peer interaction.


2				This developmental psychologist at the University of Arizona explored mathematical skills in young infants.


3				One of the individuals at Harvard University who tracked the language development of three children named Adam, Eve, and Sarah for a period of five years.


4				A researcher at York University who examined the relation between infants' communication gestures and more general cognitive skills.


5				One of the most ambitious projects in the study of child development which monitored groups of children from birth to the age of 18 years (from 1929 to the 1970s).


6				A researcher from UBC who carried out a natural experiment investigating the way the introduction of TV into a community affected aggressive behaviour among children.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

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