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Build a Foundation Towards a Career Working With Children
Child Psychology is a compelling area of study. Children are continually evolving from the moment they are born, learning from every interaction and fine tuning their skills. Throughout infancy they form attachments with caregivers, develop language, and learn to walk and explore their environment. Later on children develop a sense of what is right and wrong, they learn social roles and how to think abstractly.
Why Psychologists Study Childhood Development
Psychologists study children and their development because it helps us to understand what is normal behaviour for a child at any particular age. This helps us to recognise when a child might have problems and if they need extra support. The study of child psychology also helps us to understand more about ourselves as people, our relationships and families.
By studying this course you will learn:
What is meant by child development.
What is involved in different areas of development, such as: cognitive, moral, social and language development.
How development can be influenced by nature, nurture, temperament, parents, schools and other factors.
To apply your knowledge and understanding to real life observations.
Graduates will develop a solid foundation in child psychology which they can use towards further study or qualifications.
The knowledge you develop can be applied to a range of different professions which involve working with children.
There are 12 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction to Child Psychology
Levels of development.
Nature or nurture.
Isolating hereditary characteristics.
Cause versus correlation.
Continuity versus discontinuity.
Cross sectional and longitudinal studies.
Reliability of verbal reports.
2. The Newborn Infant
The Interactionist Approach.
Range of Reaction.
Niche Picking.
Temperament Stimulus seeking.
Emotional Disturbances During Pregnancy.
3. States and Senses of the Infant
Sensory Discrimination.
Infant States (sleep, inactivity, waking, crying etc.).
Why are Psychologists so concerned with defining and describing infant states?
Habituation.
Crying.
Soothing a Distressed Baby.
Sound Discrimination.
Smell and Taste Discrimination.
Visual Discrimination.
Depth Perception.
Oral Sensitivity.
Vicarious Learning.
Classical Conditioning.
Operant Conditioning.
Reinforcement.
The Importance of Learning Control, etc.
5. Emotions and Socialisation
Producing and Recognising Emotional Expression.
Smiling, Biological Explanation.
Perceptual Recognition Explanation.
The Mother-Child Attachment.
Freudian Approach Bowlby's Approach.
Social Learning Approach.
Harlow's Approach.
The Role of Cognition in Attachment Formation.
Maternal Attachment.
Fear, Social Learning.
Perceptual Recognition.
Women's Dual Role as Mothers and Workers, day care.
6. Cognitive Development
Developing the Ability to Reason.
7. Language Development
Is language learned, or are we genetically programmed with it?
The Social Learning Approach.
The Hypothesis Testing Approach.
Under Extending.
8. Intelligence
Measuring Intelligence.
Cultural Bias.
IQ.
Testing Intelligence as a tool.
9. Socialisation: Part A
Social Cognition - self awareness, awareness of others as individuals in their own right, the development of empathy, taking turns, having a point of view/perspective, ability to see something from another person's perspective.
Friendships.
Social Scripts, Scripts that Pretend Play.
10. Morality
Aggression & Altruism.
Freud's Approach.
Piaget's Approach.
Kohlberg's Approach.
11. Sexuality
Freud's phases (oral phase, anal phase, phallic phase, latent phase, genital phase).
The Acquisition of Gender and Role Identity.
Concept of Psycho-Social Development.
12. Socialisation: Part B
The Family Influence.
Siblings.
Family Structures.
School Influence.
Peer Influence.
Acceptance and Rejection.
Imitation and Reinforcement.
* Identify key concepts and issues in child psychology
* Understand theories on the psychology of the newborn infant
* Explain the different types of sense discrimination that babies develop
* Identify how children learn and influences on learning
* Discuss theories of emotion and their basis in child behaviour
* Explain how children develop cognitively
* Explain how children develop language
* Explain influences on the development of intelligence in a child
* Explain personal aspects of socialisation
* Explain factors affecting the development of morality in children
* Explain the development of sexuality within children
* Explain the impact of schooling and family structures on personality development
How Children Think Anyone who has ever tried to make a child do anything (clean up their mess, desist from throwing mud, stop drawing on the walls) knows that children think differently to adults. This book attempts to provide the skills and knowledge to develop a greater understanding of children.
The Environment of Play Full of inspiring colour images of playgrounds around the world, this book is ideal for designers, park managers, schools and parents! First published in the USA in 1982. Used in the past as a university text (in landscaping and education degrees). Completely revised in 2012. Full of inspiring colour images of playgrounds around the world, this book is ideal for designers, park managers, schools and parents! Play is the most important and effective method of learning for adults as well as children. It can be active or passive, planned or spontaneous. If you want to learn about the relationship between PLAY and the ENVIRONMENT, this is the ebook for you.