PSYCH 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Industrial Revolution, Meta-Analysis, Frontal Lobe
16 Nov 2020
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Reasons to learn about children development: understanding how children develop can improve child rearing, promote the adoption of wiser social policies regarding children"s welfare, and answer basic questions about human nature. Participated children became more skilled in recognizing and regulating anger when they experienced it. Historical foundations of the study of child development: goal of ancient philosophers and current thinkers is the same: to help people become better parents, to improve children"s well-being, and to understand human nature. Early philosophers" views of children"s development: plato and aristotle (14th century b. c. 5 the sociocultural context: how does the sociocultural context influence. Improved research-based understanding of development often leads to practical benefits: ex: program to help children deal with their anger, educational renovations: children"s reasoning, remembering, conceptualizing, and problem solving. The importance of appropriate measurement: must use measures that are directly relevant to the hypotheses being tested and many use this criterion, also as important are reliability and validity.
