2. Developmental Psychology
Aims to explain growth, change and consistency though the lifespan
Looks at how thinking, feeling, and behaviour change throughout a person’s life.
Main focus upon development during childhood, as this is the period during an individual's lifespan when the most change occurs.

3. Developmental Psychology
To describe development it is necessary to focus both on…
Typical patterns of change (normative development)
Individual variations in patterns of change (i.e. idiographic development).

4. Developmental psychology questions…
Is there a predictable pattern individuals follow regarding thought and language and social development?
Do children go through gradual changes or are they abrupt changes?

5. Normative development Continual Change is gradual
Discontinuity development
Abrupt
‘Stages’ (developmental periods of life)
All people go through the same stages, in the same order, but not necessarily at the same rate
Are we more Nature or Nurture?
A great insight is twin and adoptive studies

6. Bowlby Piaget Vygotsky
Stress the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition.
Children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments.
Piaget
Children think differently than adults, and stated they go through 4 universal stages of cognitive development.
Vygotsky

7. Kohlberg 1968 What is moral development?
The process throught which children develop proper attitudes and behaviors toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws.

8. Look at the dilemma’s from before half term…

9. Obey rules? Or do what is Morally ‘right’
Moral development
Worksheet 1
Obey rules? Or do what is Morally ‘right’
Worksheet 2

10. Two core studies:
Kohlberg (1968) Lee et al. (1997)

11. Activity: Kohlberg 1968
In pairs/small groups, you will be provided with a series of statements. Each statement tells information from the study. You are expected to organise each statement into an order.
Please use the following headings:
Background
Method
Materials
Procedure
Results
Conclusions
Level
Stage
Moral reasoning

12. Methodology, results, conclusions – worksheet 3

13. In groups, let’s evaluate
Using your capture sheets, evaluate Kohlberg’s study

14. Lee et al. 1997
In pairs, using worksheet 1, you are asked to write definitions for key terms. If you are unsure of some, you are expected to use a variety of sources to find out their definitions to secure an understanding

15. In pairs/small groups, you will be provided with a series of statements. Each statement tells information from the study. You are expected to organise each statement into an order.
Please use the following headings:
Background
Method
Materials
Procedure
Results
Conclusions

16. Procedure – worksheet 2
Design – worksheet 3
Stories – worksheet 4
Results and conclusions – worksheet 5
Methodological issues – worksheet 6

17. Group work: Evaluate using the other side of your CS!
When you think you are finished
Create a poster/mindmap or other visual image which represents the study. You are expected to use as little words as possible. Instead, use diagrams, drawings etc.

18. In the middle of your poster(s), identify the similarities and differences between each study!

19. Key question
How does each study relate to the key theme? And how does each study relate to the area of psychology its placed within