Developmental Area Evaluation

Question 1

Principles of Developmental Area

Answer 1

looks at how people change and develop with age eg. childrens moral development changes as they get older

also views development as an interaction of the influences of nature and nurture
= banduara found children affected by enviro as they copy aggressive role models, but also found boys were more likely to copy than girls

Question 2

Similarities between Kohlberg + Lee

Answer 2

Research Method
Kohlberg - quasi experiment as researchers didn’t control children’s ages
Lee - quasi experiment as researchers didn’t control ages or country they were from

Type of Data - qualitive
Kohlberg - interviews interpreted and placed in stages
Lee - children gave explanations for ratings

Question 3

Differences between Kohlberg & Lee

Answer 3

Longitudinal vs snapshoty
Kohlberg - longitudunal as boys tested over 12 yrs
Lee - snapshot as compared two groups of children at difference ages at one point in time

Question 4

Strengths of Developmental Area

Answer 4

Useful applications to childcare, education etc.
Bandura showed how children copy aggressive role models > 9pm watershed
Chaney showed children more likely to carry out desired behaviour when +vly reinforced >used in schools to improve behaviour

Variety of quantitive & qualitiative data
> Lee used both
> Kohlberg = qualitative
> Bandura = quantitative

Question 5

Weaknesses of developmental area

Answer 5

Raises ethical issues
> work with children
> Bandura

Practical issues by working with children
> display demand characteristics (Bandura)
> not understand questions fully in questionnaires + not able to express thoughts well