Research methods - created from Mind Map

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LAB TECHNIQUES : Habituation, Preferential Looking, Brain Imaging and Eye-Tracking.

PARENT COMPLETED MEASURES : Checklists and diaries

RESEARCH COMPLETED MEASURES : BritishPicture Vocabulary Scale and Preschool Language Scale

NATURALISTIC METHODS : Recording and Transcribing

Habituation : A form of learning that decreases or diminishes your natural response to stimuli.

Preferential looking : An experimental method examining which of two stimuli we would prefer to look at to determine attention in infancy.

Brain imaging : Using direct or indirect techniques to better explore the structure, function and pharmacology of the brain and nervous system.

Eye-tracking : Recording the movements of someone's eye, the dilation of the pupils and duration of the gaze.

Diaries : Logging day-to-day improvements and milestones in speech and language.

Checklists : Acknowledging certain milestones and recording when they have been reached.

PreSchool Language Scale : An assessment designed to examine the development of a baby's receptive and expressive vocabulary.

British Picture Vocabulary Scale : An assessment designed to examine only the development of a child's receptive vocabulary.

Recording

Transcribing