User talk:Atcovi/Spring2024/Child Psychology/Ch. 1

Key Points/Summary
What is child psychology? To study the bio, mind, socialness, emotions, and how their morality developed of the child.

1.1

 * infancy-puberty [child], 2yrs, 2-5yrs, 6-12yrs.
 * development is features and traits.
 * growth is size.
 * many reasons why we do what we do: how do we develop our child the best way possible? how do we prevent disorders?
 * more was expected back then from children. Locke believed the children were NOT locked to do bad or good, ironically, while Rousseau believed children were resolving to be good or bad from the beginning. Rousseau is more right than Locke. Darwin had a baby diary, Hall allowed us to study child development, and Binet & Simon came up with a child intelligent test.

1.2

 * Watson wanted to figure out the nurture of children, so he came up with behaviorism.
 * Gessel was more called to the grass, so he focused more on the growth vs the behavior.

Theories

 * Psychoanalytic is divided either with psychosexual (Freud) (sex with your parent! woohoo!) or psychosocial (Eriksen) (because we are socializing our way out of the life crises we may face!).
 * Behaviorism, Watson - classical conditioning is associated stimuli. operant conditioning is children getting positively or negatively reinforced through reward/punishment.
 * Social cognitive theory - Bandura, the aggressive doll experimentor, believed kids learn by doing and it happens in the cognition.
 * Cognitive-developmental theory - mental processes/development of neurons. Piaget, see information-processing theory. Encoded, stored, retrieved, processed.
 * Information-processing theory: "It is based on the idea that humans do not merely respond to stimuli from the environment. Instead, humans process the information they receive, which is also the reason why unique names for business tend to have better recall." (https://research.com/education/what-is-information-processing-theory)
 * Biological - Growth, ethology [animal behavior], imprinting [on their love ones. I'm gonna imprint my love for you!], Darwinism.
 * Ecological - Bronfenbrenner believed kids are smart and they play a role in their environment (takes two to tango).
 * Sociocultural - Culture is HELLA important. Vygotsky believed a mentor and mentee had parts in both of their developments. ZPD: thoughts and skills are mastered in the ZPD with the help of the mentor [scaffolding].

1.3

 * Nature vs. nurture [brain active during language learning vs. accents and vocab].
 * maturationists vs. stage theorists
 * are children gonna learn [being active in their learning] or do we gotta get them to learn [being passive to learning]?

1.4

 * Scientific Method, observing naturally, case study, survey.
 * Can see... correlation, meta-analysis, experimental method.

Long-Term

 * Longitudinal studies, cross-sectional, cross-sequential (see graph).

1.5
—Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No harm
 * Need informed consent before experiment.
 * Debriefing afterwards.
 * Secret, committee approval, can leave whenever they want.