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Assumptions of the developmental approach?
1. Interested in how and why we develop as we do.
2. Assumes that development is an on-going process.
3. Changes occur over a person's lifetime as a result of inherited factors or lifetime experiences (nature/nurture).
Strengths of the developmental approach?
1. Longitudinal studies are data rich and allows you to look at development in an individual over a period of time.
2. Research in this area provides us with an understanding of how humans develop and change over the whole of their lifetime.
3. Allows us to explain apparently abnormal behaviour in children.
4. Allows us to examine development from a number of different perspectives.
Weaknesses of the developmental approach?
1. Where children are studied over a long period of time, it may be that researchers become more subjective.
2. It is often difficult to replicate longitudinal studies; they can be time consuming and expensive.
3. Ethics of investigating children is a problem for this area of research.
4. To make highly valid comparisons about how people change over their lives, they need to study people for long periods of time. This may not always be possible and subjects may be lost from the study.
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