PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Romanian Orphans, Social Learning Theory, Turtle Shell
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Chapter 1 an introduction to child development. Being a good parent many ?: helping children control their anger. Children spanked argue more, fight and act inappropriately: offering sympathy, help the child find positive alternatives to express anger. Knowledge of child development permits informed decisions about social-policy questions that affect children. Example: the issue of playing violent video games and aggression in children and adolescents: research: meta-analysis the effect is minimal but nonexistent, don"t do assignment on meta-anaysis. Example: the doll test by mamie and kenneth clark. The historic brown v. board of education civil rights case. The kids chose the white doll as the pretty one and the black doll as bad. They also asked the kids which one did they think looked more like them and most of them replied that the black doll looked more like them: made schools recognize the segregations in schools and the local community.
