Child Development: Understanding Growth, Stages, and Personality
Understanding Childhood: A Comprehensive Analysis
The concept of childhood is fundamental in understanding human development. It encompasses various stages of growth, experiences, and influences that shape a child’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and social abilities. According to the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) syllabus, childhood is often studied within the context of developmental psychology and educational theory. Let’s break it down in detail:
Definition of Childhood
Childhood is the period
Read MoreQuantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in Education
Item 10: Research in Education
Quantitative Research Methods
The striking feature of the scientific method is a positivistic, experimental approach. A hypothesis is based on a premise and an offset from that hypothesis. The steps in this method are:
- Intervention from problem identification.
- Formulation of hypotheses about why the problem exists.
- Theory of problem-related scenarios.
- Logical deductions and inductions.
- Verification through observation and experimentation.
- Confirmation or rejection of the initial
McClelland’s Theory of Needs: Achievement, Affiliation, and Power
McClelland’s Theory of Needs
This theory, developed in 1962 and supported by Max Weber, argues that the development of industrialized countries is due to cultural factors, including ethics. McClelland stated that the factors that motivate humans are cultural and group-based. He maintained that there are three types of factors that motivate human beings:
Achievement
- The person wants to achieve their goals even if they reject the group.
- Natural geographical factors are secondary; what matters is achievement
Major Psychological Theories and Concepts
Structuralism
This trend suggests that the human being is a being who works consciously and is composed of structures.
Functionalism
Functionalism posits that psychology should concern itself with human behavior, which forms habits, to retrieve the subject of consciousness but focused on the consideration of human adaptation, the result of the interaction of the organism with the environment in terms of ideas.
Behaviorism
Broadly, behaviorism posits that the human being is an answer to environmental
Read MoreEthical Principles and Research Methods in Psychology
Chapter 4: The Tuskegee Study
The Tuskegee Study was an unethical U.S. Public Health Service study that observed the effects of untreated syphilis in 600 African American men without their informed consent. Participants were misled about their condition, falsely told they were receiving treatment for “bad blood,” and were denied penicillin even after it became the standard treatment in 1947.
The study caused deaths, disease transmission to spouses and children, and deep mistrust of the medical
Read MoreChild Development in Blindness: Psychomotor, Cognitive, and Language Milestones
**Psychomotor Development in Children with Blindness**
Children need constant stimulation to develop correctly (cortical stimulation). There is a clear interdependence between sensory processing, motor, cognitive, and affective development. Vision contributes significantly to child development. It is a primary sensory channel. Blind and visually impaired children develop similar patterns of neuromuscular maturation. In fact, in some blind children, skills are at levels comparable to sighted children.
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