Sullivan et al. (2020)
The goal of this assignment is to examine broad social ideals about race and how parents navigate it when taking with their children. Answer each of the following questions to the best of your ability while keeping in mind the article. Please answer questions as in-detail as possible, and provide all necessary information to fully answer questions. I have attached the required reading to this as a PDF.
1. Who participated in this study? Include if they were adults or children, parents or not, and general demographic information (race, ethnicity, etc.).
2. What kind of methods did each study use? (experimental, surveys, longitudinal, etc.)
a. Study 1:
b. Study 2:
c. Study 3:
3. For Study 1 and Study 2, what was their DV? What were their IVs?
4. Look at Figure 1 and the corresponding results text. In which domain are adults most accurate at judging children’s abilities? In which domain are adults bad at judging children’s abilities?
5. Briefly, what sort of intervention did the authors do in Study 3?
6. Based on the results of this study (Study 1 & 2 and/or 3), what sort of advice would you give to a parent or caregiver of young children?
7. Which of the developmental theories discussed this semester best fits with this study and paper? Why? (note, this is not an answer from the paper, but rather your own interpretation of the key variables and explanations and which theory it might fit with).