Within the field of child psychology much emphasis has been placed on the relationship and interactions of mother and child (Harris‚ 1998; Pinker‚ 2002). This essay intends to highlight the significance of another kind of interaction‚ that of the child and his/her siblings and peers‚ with the view to show how this type of interaction can have an impact on subsequent development. In the process‚ the essay will evaluate the research carried out and the evidence gained within this area by way of critical
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1 TMA04 Word count 1472. Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman`s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces?. This essay will look at the ordering of motor vehicles and pedestrians ‚in order to compare and contrast Colin Buchanan’s Traffic in towns 1963 government commissioned report‚ with Hans Monderman’s thesis 1982.It will also look briefly at further accounts of social order that of philosopher Micheal Foucault’s macro dimensions of social life and sociologists
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Investigating the possibility of a developmental trend in the way that children describe themselves. Abstract This version of Rosenberg’s research into children’s self-descriptions analysed data from semi-structured interviews with two children; Annie (8) and Kirsty (16). The data was interpreted to ascertain whether‚ as in Rosenberg’s research‚ children’s self-descriptions show evidence of a developmental progression and whether locus of self-knowledge shifts from other to self as children
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Why is play with siblings and peers important for children’s development? For some time play has been considered a vital activity for children in enabling them to develop and practice real social skills in a safe setting. Whilst interactions with adults can be very important it is often‚ due to the nature of the relationship‚ when children interact with peers and siblings that the potential for development through play becomes apparent. Play can be based either on complimentary or reciprocal
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The Open University. Murray and Stein (1991) cited in ‘ Disturbed and disturbing behaviour’‚ Woodhead‚ M.‚ Rhodes‚ S.‚ Oates‚ J. (eds) Psychological Development and Early Childhood‚ Oxford‚ Blackwell/ The Open University The Open University ( 2013) ED209‚ Child Development‚ DVD Media Kit‚ Part 2‚ Band 3‚ ‘Finding a way Marni and Renee‚ Oxford‚ The Open University. Vondra (1995) cited in ‘Parenting and Attachments’ ‚ Oates‚ J.‚ Lewis‚ C.‚ Lamb‚ M. (eds) Psychological Development and Early Childhood
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Outline the main features of experimental social psychology and consider the influences that led to its emergence. What do you think are its strengths and weaknesses? Social psychology has many different theoretical perspectives. The focus of this essay will be the cognitive social perspective and its central method of research; experiments. I will therefore refer to this approach as experimental social psychology (ESP). My aim is to argue that despite some downfalls‚ ESP provides an indispensible
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Sensitive parenting is the most important factor in a child’s psychological development Parents are the first and perhaps most profound influence on their children ’s lives. Considering different aspects of psychological development this essay is going through some evidence to see what the researchers mean by sensitive parenting: Bowlby’s attachment theory‚ The Strange Situation‚ Zimmerman‚ Hamilton‚ Baumrind and others. A sensitive person is somebody who can “quick detect or respond to slight
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TMA04: The Invention Of Tradition. How selective did Irish Nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past? The Invention of Tradition as described by Hobsbawm and Ranger‚ “Is taken to mean a set of practices‚ normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of ritual or symbolic nature‚ which seek to inculcate certain values as norms of behaviour by reputation.” (E. Hobsbawm‚ T Ranger‚ 1983. p.3) The concept of tradition is the passing down of practices
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Discuss the similarities and difference between peer-peer interactions and sibling-sibling interactions in different contexts and consider the developmental implications of such interactions. It has been recognised by developmental psychologists that children’s first relationships and experiences have a significant effect on development. Whilst research has been mainly focused on the mother-child relationship‚ there has been an increase in research on children’s relationships with their siblings
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TMA 01 ED209 CHILD DEVELOPMENT Research of evidence‚ which describes the development of infants’ sensory abilities and how research has generated this knowledge. This assay will describe the development of infant’s senses of their 18 months of life and will define how this knowledge has generated. The development of the sensory and the nervous system is not whole at birth and will continue to mature until the adolescence. As babies cannot express themselves with words it has to
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