PSYC 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Weight Gain, Epigenetics, Heredity
20 Oct 2016
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Course helps answer different developmental questions and help the parenting process. Spanking, for instance, has a negative impact on child development and should not be used. Instead, sympathy and finding positive alternative for child anger are helpful. In preschools, children used the turtle position and came out of their shell when they were calm. Helps in not just raising children, but in situations and cases involving children. In sexual abuse cases, it"s hard to know whether a child is wrongly convicting someone innocent or correctly accusing someone but they go free. Research has helped understand how to question certain ages of children in a court of law those between 3-5 should not be asked leading questions. Using anatomically correct dolls in also resulted in inaccurate claims. Determine what is genetic, what is learned, what can be changed. For those who experienced maltreatment more than six months, it becomes increasingly harder with age in terms of physical development.
