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One minute methods - ethics
Discover the ethical principles researchers need to consider when conducting research with children.
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One minute methods - experiments
Discover what natural experiments, like the Dutch famine, and controlled experiments can teach us about child development.
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One minute methods - correlations
Discover how researchers use relationships between factors to understand child development.
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One minute methods - familiarisation
Discover how the familiarisation procedure, as used by Kisilevsky and colleagues, takes advantage of one thing young infants are really good at – getting bored.
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One minute methods - cross sectional and longitudinal designs
Discover how researchers compare different age groups of children at the same time, as in the Elenbaas and colleagues study, or compare how the same children grow up over time.
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One minute methods - sampling
Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make.
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One minute methods - validity and reliability
Discover how researchers ensure that their measurements are both valid and reliable.
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One minute methods - case studies
Discover how case studies, like the one Georges-Henri Luquet conducted on his own daughter’s drawings, can give us a rich description of development.
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One minute methods - cultural sensitivity
Discover why methods need to be culturally meaningful and sensitive to the experiences of the children taking part in research.
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One minute methods - meta analysis
Discover how meta-analyses can help researchers see the bigger picture that no one study alone can show.
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One minute methods - computer simulations
Discover how researchers build computer simulations to explore how children learn.
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One minute methods - twin studies
Learn how twins provide a natural experiment to investigate the relative importance of genes and environment on development.
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One minute methods - interviews and focus groups
Discover how researchers use interviews and focus groups to get an in depth understanding of people’s experiences.
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One minute methods - participant observer research
Discover how researchers live within the societies they are studying, sometimes for many years, to gain an insider’s perspective and to share similar experiences.
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One minute methods - neuroimaging
Discover how neuroimaging techniques, like those used in the driving simulation study, can reveal much about the relationship between brain, mind and behaviour.
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