PSY302: CHILD DEVELOPMENT MIDTERM NOTES UPDATE 2022-2023

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PSY302: CHILD DEVELOPMENT MIDTERM WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT WHY DO WE STUDY CHILDREN?: · Raising · Social policies f · To understand human nature RAISING CHILD... REN: Gain knowledge and information that can help parents and teachers rearing and educating children. o Developing effective approaches to help children manage anger and other negative emotions (i.e turtle technique” ) o Turtle technique: This is a regulation children are can be taught when dealing with negative emotions is to reminded to retreat into their turtle shell, think through the situation and whenever ready they can come out § proved to be effective in regulating children excuses and regulating negative emotions. – the effect could be long term. CHOOSING SOCIAL POLICIES: Knowledge of child development permits informed decisions about social-policy questions that affect children (i.e inform social policies, such as those involving testimonies from preschool children.) · Knowledge of child development permits informed decisions about social-policy questions that affect children in general; o For example, research on children’s responses to leading interview questions can help us decide how much trust to put in preschooler ’s courtroom testimony o RESEARCH STUDY: (children aged 3-6 played the “Simon says” game, and one month later, test their memory of which part of the body of themselves or their playmates were actually touched during the game) RESULTS: Repeated questions such as “are you sure… ? is it possible that…?”can make a substantial percentage of children of that age, particularly aged 3-4 (preschoolers) change their original answers (34%) to be consistent with the experimenter’s false belief. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN: indicates how what has happened, repeated questions and how the question is asked can influence the responses of young children and can lead to false/wrong questions. THEREFORE: Cautious should be taken when obtaining testimonies from young children. - questions should be stated in a neutral fashion, should not presuppose the answer, and should not be repeated .....................................................................................continued............................................................................. [Show More]

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