Evaluation of developmental approach
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- Evaluation of developmental approach
- Role of learning.
- Emphasises the role of learning.
- Evidence of how food preferences are learned during childhood e.g. Birch et al.
- Social learning theory and associative learning have found to increase preference to certain foods (Birch).
- Controlled research environment.
- Enables alternative explanations to be excluded.
- Can establish cause and effect.
- cause = environment. Effect = food preference.
- Lacks mundane realism - not real foods. Ignores other factors that are involved like mood and health .
- Lacks ecological validity, only sees food as positive or negative and is reductionist.
- Role of learning.
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