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Developmental Psychology
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- 1What is developmental psychology interested in?Discovering the physiological processes of development
- 2What is a main assumption of the developmental approach?Cognitive, emotional and behavioural development is an ongoing process and that such changes result from an interaction of nature and nurture
- 3What is a strength of the developmental approach?Many studies in this area are longitudinal which means that they do get to investigate changes and how these changes are influenced
- 4What is a strength of the developmental approach in relation to understanding children?It provides useful information about how we can better understand how children learn and deal with emotional difficulties and therefore improve their lives
- 5What is a problem with the developmental approach?There is a tendency to generalise findings from often very limited samples, it often looks for general patterns of development based on non representative sample
- 6What is a limitation of the developmental approach?The validity of measuring children's behaviour and thoughts, we can question if psychologists are actually measuring what they are attempting to measure as children may have qualitatively different thoughts to adults
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