Developmental Psychology Assignment 1
Introduction Psychology is a scientific study of behaviour and the development of this behaviour.
Obtaining knowledge about this enables practitioners and psychologists to identify development from the different perspectives.
There are several debates involved with developmental psychology which discuss different aspects of development. These are as follows:
Nature Vs Nurture h
Idiographic Vs Nomothetic
Continuity Vs Discontinuity
All of these debates discuss different aspects of our development however they are examined from different perspectives.
In psychology, there are four perspectives. These perspectives allow practitioners to examine things from different points of view to determine and explain why they happen. For example, certain conditions that children have can be explained by the different perspectives. Each perspective will explain the condition in a different way and provide different reasons for the condition and its causes.
The perspectives are the psychodynamic approach, the behaviourist approach, the cognitive approach and the physiological/biological approach.
This assignment will be discussing these perspectives in more detail and will be discussing the ways that the perspectives influence current practice.
There are a number of issues in developmental psychology. These are as follows:
Nature Vs Nurture – this is in relation to how children learn and develop. The nature side of the debate involves psychologists who believe that children already have the ability to learn and develop. They also believe that on this side of the debate, children take influences from the environment and learn as they grow rather than learning from the support from other sources such as parents and teachers. Psychologists on the nurture side of the debate believe that children need to be taught things to learn how to do them. Psychologists also believe that in the nurture side of the debate, children learn mainly from the support of teachers and
Obtaining knowledge about this enables practitioners and psychologists to identify development from the different perspectives.
There are several debates involved with developmental psychology which discuss different aspects of development. These are as follows:
Nature Vs Nurture h
Idiographic Vs Nomothetic
Continuity Vs Discontinuity
All of these debates discuss different aspects of our development however they are examined from different perspectives.
In psychology, there are four perspectives. These perspectives allow practitioners to examine things from different points of view to determine and explain why they happen. For example, certain conditions that children have can be explained by the different perspectives. Each perspective will explain the condition in a different way and provide different reasons for the condition and its causes.
The perspectives are the psychodynamic approach, the behaviourist approach, the cognitive approach and the physiological/biological approach.
This assignment will be discussing these perspectives in more detail and will be discussing the ways that the perspectives influence current practice.
There are a number of issues in developmental psychology. These are as follows:
Nature Vs Nurture – this is in relation to how children learn and develop. The nature side of the debate involves psychologists who believe that children already have the ability to learn and develop. They also believe that on this side of the debate, children take influences from the environment and learn as they grow rather than learning from the support from other sources such as parents and teachers. Psychologists on the nurture side of the debate believe that children need to be taught things to learn how to do them. Psychologists also believe that in the nurture side of the debate, children learn mainly from the support of teachers and