Essays on Child Development

The nature versus nurture theory in psychology has been a debate for the past years since it was found by psychologist Sir Francis Galton in 1869 (Capps, 2016). Various doctors, psychologists, scientists, and researchers are still arguing about this theory and how it works. According to Kong et al. (2018)...

In the society teachers, guardians and parents spend much time with children teaching them life skills and behaviors considered as appropriate. Consequently, it is vital for them to be aware of theories of human development applicable to behavior modification and management. This paper explores instrumental, classical and tow factor theories...

Scholars attempt to solve problems in the society by developing viable solutions that address issues that affect individuals in their immediate environment. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify the aspects that affect the relationship between parents and their children who have autism. From this observation,...

After birth: A child's introduction to the world After birth, the child learns and begins to familiarize with the environment around him/her, gets acquainted with the sense of touch, feel, and hurt. Children cannot, however, talk about it but they have the very feeling as the adult. Piaget on his sequential...

Indiscriminate friendliness refers to either overfriendliness or friendly behavior in children as they seek attention an approval from any adult including strangers. It also refers to diminished social behavior and disinhibited attachment of a child by showing overfriendly behavior toward adult figures. Indiscriminately friendliness is not classified as normal behavior...

How Achievement Motivation is affected by Socioeconomic Background, Race, and Family Structure Motivation is defined as the driving force behind an individual s actions, which can facilitate achievement of goals. People tend to take risk and perform dangerous activities to meet their needs and fulfill their interests. One expects negative and...

Literature Gap and Research Method The literature gap that needs to be studied is determining the roles of locus parental control, the social interaction level and parental cognition on behavioral development among autistic children and the subsequent stress and depression among the parents of such children. Since the report sort...

Infant Health and Stanley Greenspan Infant health is one of the most significant aspects of understanding the human development across lifespan. The fact that the health of the infant affects their development into adulthood implies that there is always a need to consider the implication of the learning process in infancy...

In the current society, children are raised in a technological world. Having a mobile phone and means to access internet has become a ‘basic ‘need for most children especially in adolescent years. Parents are sometimes out of options and compelled to buy and allow access to mobile devices and internet....

Social deprivation, a psychological term, is the reduction or prevention of socially normal interactions between an individual(s) and the society at large. Social deprivation, a common phenomenon, especially in first world countries has an innumerable number of effects. Based on data published by the UNICEF, more than 8 million children...

Everyone has been exposed to learning in one way or another, hence important to understand the basics of each type of learning based on the classical and operant conditioned as postulated by Ian Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. Classical conditioning was first described by Pavlov and entails an originally neutral stimulus...

Adolescence is the stage in life that lasts from puberty to full adult status. Adolescence largely describes the developmental change from childhood to adulthood, which is commonly perceived as the teenage years lasting between 13 and 19. However, the changes that do signal the beginning of the transition, both psychological...