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Psychology / Unit 8   Psych 0951 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Reading a Developmental Study Design

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The idea

A developmental study is read by naming its design, then the confound that design carries, then what that confound forbids concluding.

In practice

A cross-sectional age difference carries the cohort confound, so it cannot be read as an effect of aging.

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