Developmental

• What are the defining principles of the developmental area?

  -Change and development is process constantly changing throughout ur lifetimes

  -Behaviour must be learnt (nurture) or may be innate (nature) from inherited factors

  -Early experiences effect our later development

  -Development may change in pre determined stages
• What are the strengths of the developmental area?

  -Gives improved understanding of people at different age and stages

  -Tells us how we can positively effect children’s behaviour

  -Observational learning from Bandura has been proven to effect behaviour so age restrictions on games, films, tv introduced

  -The effect of reinforcement on children’s medical adherence has helped us to understand how to encourage children medically.
• What are the weaknesses of the developmental area?

  -Is hard to measure some aspects of development like thoughts

  -Ethical issues as experimenting younger groups of people

  -Difficult to design experiments and materials suitable for children
• Developmental core studies 


  Bandura- Social learning theory= behaviour learnt (nature) as children learned behaviour through observation, behaviour is innate (nature) as boys produced the higher levels of aggression

  Chaney- Medical adherence= effected by reinforcement- early experiences effect later development with how reinforcement effected their development of adherence with medicine, behaviour is learnt (nature)
• Developmental practical applications


  -Children’s development and age ratings

  -Education and how to effectively educate

  -Parental classes and role models