- Wilson and Kelling collected evidence whilst walking with Newmark foot patrol officers through rundown areas.
- Good ecological validity as disorderly behaviour was part of the everyday life
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Methodological Issues
- Questions validity as observations were subjective with no other corroboration
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Methodological Issues
- Reliability is difficult to assess as it is only from one source so we have no knowledge of inter observer reliability
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Methodological Issues
- Measures of zero tolerance policy is reliable as data is collected under strict guidelines
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Methodological Issues
- Difficult to generalise broken windows theory as in some less affluent cities neighbourhood breakdown may have not begun
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Methodological Issues
- Policing strategies like zero tolerance policy are ethnocentric as they were designed to deal with problems experienced in western society
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Nature/Nurture
Child Topic 4
- Vygotsky highlighted the role of experts in Childs cognitive development
- Nurture in form of social environment
Learning can come before development
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Nature/Nurture
- Wood et al emphasises value of a sensitive tutors intervention in developing a Childs thinking
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Nature/Nurture
- Piaget - nature
- Believed that stages of cognitive development progressed in the same sequence in every child
- Stages are driven by biological changes in the brain - as brain matures different kinds of thinking are possible
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- Questions validity as observations were subjective with no other corroboration
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