Author Question: What point was Urie Bronfenbrenner attempting to make when he said that developmental psychology had ... (Read 109 times)

Zoey63294 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

What point was Urie Bronfenbrenner attempting to make when he said that developmental psychology had become, the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults?

a. Modern developmental psychology is too focused on laboratory research.
b. Modern developmental psychology pays too much attention to exceptional children and not enough to normal children.
c. Modern developmental psychology is too worried about the impact of early childhood abuse by parents.
d. Modern developmental psychology conducts far too few experiments.

Question 2

A key limitation of the experimental method is that it

a. cannot be used to identify cause-and-effect.
b. is very expensive.
c. cannot be used to assess many interesting questions due to ethical reasons.
d. does an excellent job of explaining real-world experience, but does not do a good job of explaining what happens in the laboratory.