Devlopmental Approach

Question 1

Strengths

Answer 1

Use longitudinal provides in depth rich qualitative data of one person over a period of time - Farrington looks at offending behaviour of boys 8 to 48 and comes to conclusions about offending such as person re convicting if they started offending at early age
Provides us with an understanding of how humans develop and change over the whole of their lifetime - Samuel and Bryant study into age at which children can conserve has changed children’s education in terms of how teachers teach children and what methods they use to teach them

Question 2

Weaknesses

Answer 2

Difficult to replicate longitudinal studies expensive and time consuming therefore not reliable - be hard to replicate Farrington looks at people for 40 years of their life very time consuming and unreliable as it can’t be repeated as the same study
In longitudinal studies there are high attrition rates - yochelson & samenow looked at criminal thinking patterns of 255 criminals only 30 completed it
Very limited samples - Freud tried to her aloes findings
Ethnocentric and try to vernalise to other cultures however traditions are different place to place - Samuel and Bryant tried to generalise findings to other cultures when research was based in one town from uk ignored cultures of how children learn differently in other country’s
Very deterministic - Freud psychosexual stages
Samuel and Bryant with stages of conservation.
Piaget assumed younger children do not have ability to think like older children

Question 3

Assumptions

Answer 3

All behaviour In adulthood is affected by experiences in childhood