PSYC 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Inter-Rater Reliability, Scientific Method, Longitudinal Study
23 Sep 2016
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The sheer enjoyment of watching children and trying to understand them is reason enough for studying child development. Understanding how children develop can improve child-rearing, promote the adoption of wiser social policies regarding children"s welfare, and answer intriguing questions about human nature. Being a good parent is not easy. Among its many challenges are the endless questions it raises over the years. Child development research can help answer such questions. One problem that confronts almost all parents is how to help their children control their anger and other negative emotions. One tempting and frequent reaction is to spank children who express anger in inappropriate ways, such as fighting, name-calling, and talking back. 80% of parents of kindergarten children reported having spanked their child on occasion, and 27% reported having spanked their child the previous week. The more often parents spanked their kindergarteners, the more often the same children fought, and acted inappropriately at school when they were 3rd-graders.
