Developmental Area Flashcards
What are the defining characteristics of the developmental area?
How behaviour changes and develops over someone’s lifespan, often research on children as this is the most rapid development, thinks about whether behaviour is nature or nurture
What aspect of development does the study by Bandura relate to?
Aggressive Behaviour
What aspect of development does the study by Kohlberg relate to?
How morals develop through age
How is the developmental area similar to the social area?
Discuss nurture as an influence on behaviour, often controlled research methods, both can be seen as ethnocentric
How is the developmental area different from the social area?
Considers many different influences on behaviour not just one, most studies on children, often relies on self-report measures (e.g. interviews), often longitudinal research
What are the strengths of the developmental area?
The research is useful and has many applications to things like childcare and education, it attempts to answer the nature nurture debate, it uses methods that obtain both quantitative and qualitative data, instead of using different groups the same participants can be studied for one periods as they grow up (reducing participant variables)
What are the weaknesses of the development area?
Any research involving children can raise ethical issues like protection from harm, children might not be able to express themselves fully in self-report, cultural differences in child rearing tends to make research ethnocentric, samples tend to be small and not generalisable.
