Developmental Area Flashcards
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Key Principles
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- Suggest behaviour might be innate or learnt from the environment
- Assumes our behaviour changes throughout our lifetime
2
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Key Concepts
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- social learning theory
- operant conditioning
- positive + negative reinforcement
- moral development
- universal stages of development
3
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Strengths of Developmental Area
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- many useful to child care, education
- attempts to answer the nature vs nurture debate
- uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods
- can study participants over time
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Weaknesses of Developmental Area
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- Research with children may raise ethical issues such as consent
- Practical issues such as having to make inferences from observed behaviour as they cannot express their thoughts through self-report
- Cultural différences in child rearing trends to make research ethnocentric
5
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Moral Development
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Kohlberg and Lee support the developmental area as they look at changes in children’s moral development by either looking at how it changes over time (Kohlberg) or the differences between cultures swell as just age (Lee)
