What is a benefit to using physiological measures when conducting developmental research? Use an example to support your answer.

What will be an ideal response?


There are a couple of benefits to using physiological measures. Physiological measures do not rely on verbal reports and generally cannot be faked; therefore, these measures can be used when studying infants or other nonverbal subjects.

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a. collect data to test the hypothesis. b. identify a question of scientific interest. c. form a hypothesis. d. choose a research method and a research design.

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Among economically better-off young people, __________ occurs much __________ in the lifespan than it did a generation or two ago

A) finishing one’s education; earlier B) having children; earlier C) marrying; later D) attending college; later

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A perceptual psychologist chose a random sample of individuals from his department’s participant pool and for each individual he measured the duration of motion-after effects they experienced (x) and duration of a color aftereffects they experienced (y). The correlation between x and y was –.12. Therefore, zr is ______.

a. –0.12 b. 0.12 c. –0.73 d. 0.38

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