Understanding Sexuality, Violence, and Affective Processes

The Value of Sexuality

Regarding introducing sexual practices from an early age, parents and schools cannot avoid this issue. Television and other media often depict sexual situations.

At school, teachers can teach about the responsible use of freedom, but they cannot prevent a student’s desires. Trying to suppress these desires is like trying to eliminate wine to prevent drunkenness, or eliminating night to prevent theft, or eliminating women to prevent male adultery.

The Value of Fearing Violence

Violence

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Understanding Learning Disabilities in Children

The Child with Learning Disabilities

A number of linguistic, biological, and social factors can contribute to learning disabilities. When these factors are not present, the child is often considered normal by family members and teachers. The first noticeable change is difficulty learning in school. The highest proportion of children diagnosed with learning disabilities is between 8 and 11 years of age.

Learning disabilities often occur together. It is uncommon to find children who are solely dysgraphic,

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Human Evolution: From Prey to Culture

The Development of Human Dexterity and Tool Use

Our ancestors, a purely carnivorous species, stole freshly hunted prey. For this action, they must have acted in gangs, in an organized manner. The upper limbs, especially in relation to other species, have shortened. These limbs, exempted from motor functions, have been specializing in distinctly human functions. The opposable thumb is an inherited characteristic of older primates, but its primary function has been to cling to branches and, secondarily,

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Understanding Society: Key Concepts and Definitions

Key Concepts of Social Structures and Human Behavior

Power and Institutions

Power: Physical or material ability. Power compels others to obey and brings an end to resistance.

Institutions: Ordered systems with common interests that perform social functions.

Organizations: A set of people with a common objective.

Groups: Entities with differentiated parts: primary, secondary, and reference groups.

Ideology, Utopia, and Norms

Ideology: Values and beliefs that give rise to feelings and objectives, aiming

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Understanding Childhood Friendships and Parenting Styles

Social Relations in Early Childhood

All definitions of friendship share these common elements:

  • Friendship involves a unique connection not found in other relationships.
  • It is emotional in nature.
  • Friends appreciate each other.
  • It is a reciprocal and concrete process, similar to the social nature of addiction.

Difference Between Friendship and Attachment

Friendship is a voluntary link; friends are chosen, whereas parents are not. It is a dyadic relationship that is symmetrical and reciprocal. Both members

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Sensory-Motor & Cognitive-Linguistic Development: Key Milestones & Interventions

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Unit 3: Symptoms and intervention in sensory motor problems

  1. According to general principles of development, explain: discontinuity/continuity principle and hierarchy.

Discontinuity/ continuity: Development is a continuous process interrupted by rapid changes.

Hierarchy: social areas mature earlier than prefrontal and associative areas.

  1. Which senses develop inside a mother’s womb?

Touch and taste

  1. Mention and describe the 4 types of crying

Hunger: (regular and rhythmical)

Pain: (Intense)

Rage: (intense

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