ALDENHAM PSYCHOLOGY
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      • Social Area >
        • Milgram
        • Bocchiaro
        • Piliavin
        • Levine
      • Cognitive Area >
        • Loftus
        • Grant
        • Moray
        • Simons & Chabris
      • Developmental Area >
        • Bandura
        • Chaney
        • Kohlberg
        • Lee
      • Biological Area >
        • Sperry
        • Casey
        • Blakemore and Cooper
        • Maguire
      • Individual Differences Area >
        • Freud
        • Baron Cohen
        • Gould
        • Hancock
      • Behaviourist Perspective
      • Psychodynamic Perspective
    • Debates >
      • Nature v Nurture
      • Free Will v Determinism
      • Reductionism v Holism
      • Individual v Situational
      • Usefulness
      • Ethical Considerations
      • Socially Sensitive Research
      • Psych as a Science
      • Methodological Issues
      • Ethnocentrism
  • Paper 3: Applied Psychology
    • Issues of Mental Health >
      • Historical Context of Mental Health
      • The Medical Model
      • Alternatives to the Medical Model
    • Paper 3: Options
    • Child Psychology >
      • Intelligence
      • Pre-adult brain development
      • Perception
      • Cognitive Development
      • Attachment
      • Impact of Advertising
    • Criminal Psychology >
      • What makes a criminal?
      • Forensic Evidence
      • Collection of Evidence
      • Psychology & the Courtroom
      • Crime Prevention
      • Effect of Imprisonment
    • Environmental Psychology
    • Sport and Exercise Psychology
Developmental Area
Summary of the Area
Principles of the Developmental Area
  • Interested in psychological processes of development. Change and development is an on-going process which continues throughout our lifetime.
  • Behaviour may be learned (nurture) or innate (biological / nature).
  • Early experiences affect later development.
  • Development may happen in pre-determined stages.
 
Types of Behaviour Studied
  • Who are children influenced by most?
  • When do children know right from wrong?
 
Practical Applications
  • Issues of Mental Health – providing pregnant women with flu injections to prevent the child having Sz in later life.
  • Child Psychology – does your relationship as a child with your mother affect your adult relationships?
  • Criminal Psychology – is crime the product of an unhappy childhood?
 
Debate it strongly links with
It takes a strongly interactionist view of the nature/nurture debate as it assumes that both the upbringing and genes cause people’s behaviours and both factors interact in a person’s behaviour.
 
Strengths
  • Useful – gives an explanation of why people demonstrate different intellectual abilities, social skills and emotions
  • It adds to the nature / nurture debate
  • Gives the opportunity for participant(s) to be studied in their natural environment
  • Easy to apply to everyday life as we are constantly learning and developing due to maturation
 
Weaknesses
  • Theories about pre-determined stages of development are too rigid
  • Focuses mainly on childhood development and tends to neglect how adults mature
  • Behaviour is determined by upbringing, so suggest less free will
 
Research Methods
  • Methods can be longitudinal showing development of behaviour
  • Use of case studies open to subjectivity affecting validity
 
Methodological Issues
  • Low ecological validity and mundane realism as the setting/tasks are often artificial
  • Longitudinal research can suffer from attrition of participants
  • Collects both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Reliability is good if set in a laboratory due to standardised procedure
  • Replication of case study method is difficult
 
Core Studies
  • Bandura
  • Chaney
  • Kohlberg
  • Lee
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  • Everything else
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      • Mock & Internal Exams
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    • For Parents
    • Classrooms
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    • Aldenham Attributes >
      • Aspiration
      • Co-operation
      • Courage
      • Curiosity
      • Independence
      • Respect
  • Paper 1: Research Methods
    • Paper 1: What the paper is like >
      • Research Methodology of the Core Studies
    • The 4 main research methods
    • Populations and Samples
    • Ethical Considerations
    • Self-reports
    • Observations
    • Correlations
    • Experiments
    • Reliability and Validity
    • Descriptive Statistics >
      • Distribution Curves
    • Inferential Statistics
    • Reporting, Referencing and Design your Own >
      • Sections of a Psychology Report
      • Harvard Referencing
      • Peer Review
  • Paper 2: Core Studies
    • Paper 2: What the paper is like
    • Areas and Perspectives >
      • Social Area >
        • Milgram
        • Bocchiaro
        • Piliavin
        • Levine
      • Cognitive Area >
        • Loftus
        • Grant
        • Moray
        • Simons & Chabris
      • Developmental Area >
        • Bandura
        • Chaney
        • Kohlberg
        • Lee
      • Biological Area >
        • Sperry
        • Casey
        • Blakemore and Cooper
        • Maguire
      • Individual Differences Area >
        • Freud
        • Baron Cohen
        • Gould
        • Hancock
      • Behaviourist Perspective
      • Psychodynamic Perspective
    • Debates >
      • Nature v Nurture
      • Free Will v Determinism
      • Reductionism v Holism
      • Individual v Situational
      • Usefulness
      • Ethical Considerations
      • Socially Sensitive Research
      • Psych as a Science
      • Methodological Issues
      • Ethnocentrism
  • Paper 3: Applied Psychology
    • Issues of Mental Health >
      • Historical Context of Mental Health
      • The Medical Model
      • Alternatives to the Medical Model
    • Paper 3: Options
    • Child Psychology >
      • Intelligence
      • Pre-adult brain development
      • Perception
      • Cognitive Development
      • Attachment
      • Impact of Advertising
    • Criminal Psychology >
      • What makes a criminal?
      • Forensic Evidence
      • Collection of Evidence
      • Psychology & the Courtroom
      • Crime Prevention
      • Effect of Imprisonment
    • Environmental Psychology
    • Sport and Exercise Psychology