The Developmental Area

Question 1

What does the developmental area state

Answer 1

• behaviour develops over time throughout life

Question 2

What are bandura’s links to the developmental area

Answer 2

• investigated how children learn behaviour
  *shows how a child’s external environment can have a large influence on later behaviour
• children learn behaviours through observing role models and imitating the behaviours that they see

Question 3

What are kohlberg’s links to the developmental area

Answer 3

• children’s moral reasoning changes as they get older and develops in fixed stages

Question 4

What are the strengths of the developmental area

Answer 4

• longitudional research means results are not affected by participent variables
• matched pairs design helps eliminate participent variables
• practical applications in education and parenting
• high internal reliability - procedures are standardised
• supports the nurture side of the debate
• large sample sizes

Question 5

What are the weaknesses of the developmental area

Answer 5

• hard to establish cause and effect as extraneous variables can easily influence findings
• ethical issues - psychological harm
• can be seen as ethnocentric as parenting and upbringing can vary in different cultures
• past experiences of participents could influence results

Question 6

Compare Bandura’s Study of Transmission of Aggression and Chaney’s Study Of Funhalers

Answer 6

Similarities:
- Both used children
- Both collected quentitative data
Differences:
- How the data was collected
- Experimental design

Question 7

What are Chaney’s links to the developmental area

Answer 7

• Explains how upbrining affects adult behaviour
• If the children use the inhaler correctly now then they will also be able to use it correctly in adult life

Question 8

Compare kohlberg’s study of moral development and Lee’s study of lying and truth telling

Answer 8

Similarities
- both were cross cultural
- both used scenarios with children
differences