Developmental psychology

How can we leverage child development knowledge to improve public policy?

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How can we leverage child development knowledge to improve Education?

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How can we leverage child development knowledge to improve parenting?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as Intelligence?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as Education?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as employment success?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as social skills?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as perspective taking?

Model empathy, create situations in play where toys experience different feelings from the same event.

How can we improve child outcomes such as emotional development?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as mental health?

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How can we improve child outcomes such as moral behaviour?

Model and teach Prosocial behaviours, empathy modeled, value honesty, respect for all things living and not.

what is a Freudian slip?

Something said unintendedly that sounds sexual.

what is meant by “psychic energy” when discussing Freud?

biologically based instinctual drives (such as feelings in erogenous zones)

Freud beleived that eating disorders began in the oral stage (0-18m)

was his theory correct? True/false?

False, eating disorders onset in middle adolescence around 15-16y.

"give me any infant of good healthy and I can condition them into anything: doctor, lawyer, merchant even beggar"

which theorist said this?

John Watson - behaviour theory

classical conditioning - little albert

Vicarious reinforcement

copying the behaviours of another when witnessing them receive rewards for that behaviour.

bandura, social learning theory - bobo doll.

“a person does not act upon the world - it acts upon him. we are all passive in our environments that shape us”.

who said this?

B.F. Skinner

believed in environment driving development.

*he is unaware or disregards gender roles and expectations.

Reciprocal Determinism

environments shape children and children shape their environments. A cyclical, dual process.

Define peers

Peers are people of approximately the same

age and status

are friends great buffers during all difficult experiences?

no.
Adults are better buffers in highly stressful experiences. its important that kids feel like they can approach their caregivers about important things.

cognitive reappraisal

strategy where individuals actively modify their emotional response to a situation by changing their thoughts about it. It involves evaluating the situation from a different perspective