CHILD PSYCHOLOGY course with CAREERLINE COURSES Australia

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CHILD PSYCHOLOGY BPS104

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Course Aims

Identify
Environmental and social aspects required for the ideal environment The type of learning in which a stimulus is manipulated to produce a conditioned response

Discuss
Exactly how you would use operant conditioning to encourage a child to socialise

Apply
The perceptual recognition approach to explain smiling and fear in infants
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Explain
How genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child's personality development How genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child's personality development Reflection-impulsivity and its significance in cognitive development The strengths and weakness of social learning theory in explaining language acquisition Why you think that intelligence is or is not overall genetically determined

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Provide Evidence
That a particular personality characteristic may be genetically determined

Evaluate
of Freuds, Harlows and Bowlbys explanations of the formation mother-child attachments different

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY BPS104

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Lessons

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

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2. The newborn infant

The Interactionist approach Range of reaction Niche picking Temperament stimulus seeking Emotional disturbances during pregnancy

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3. States and senses of the infant

Sensory discrimination Infant states Why psychologists are concerned with defining and describing infant states Habituation Crying Soothing a distressed baby Sensory discrimination Depth perception Oral sensitivity
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4. Learning
Habituation Vicarious learning Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Reinforcement The importance of learning control

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5. Emotions and socialising

Producing and recognising emotional expression Smiling Biological explanation Perceptual recognition Mother-child attachment Freudian approach Bowlby's approach Social Learning approach Harlow's approach Role of cognition in attachment formation Day care
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6. Cognitive development
Developing the ability to reason

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7. Language development
Is language ability learned or innate? Social Learning Approach Hypothesis testing approach Under extending

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8. Intelligence
Measuring Intelligence Cultural Bias IQ Testing Intelligence as a tool

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9. Socialisation
Part A
Social Cognition Self awareness Awareness of others Development of empathy Taking turns Having a point of view/perspective Social scripts Pretend play

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10. Morality
Moral development Aggression and altruism Freud Piaget and Kohlberg on moral development

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11. Sexuality
Freud's phases Gender and role Identity Psycho-social development

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12. Socialisation
Part B
Family influence Discipline Siblings Family structures School influence Peer influence Acceptance and rejection Modelling Reinforcement
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An assignment for each lesson

All assignments marked by the school's tutors Returned with suggestions and comments Extra readings assigned if needed

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