Child Psychology Level 3 Certificate Course

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Child psychology is concerned with the development of a person over the course of their childhood. This involves the development of a child's mental processes (ie. cognitive development); emotional and social behaviour. Although development doesn't end at adulthood, some characteristics are more easily developed and changed during childhood.

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Identify environmental and social aspects required for the ideal environment for a developing child.
Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child's personality development.
Provide evidence that a particular personality characteristic may be genetically determined.
Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child's personality development.
Identify the type of learning in which a stimulus which usually produces an unconditioned response is manipulated to produce a conditioned response, and give an example.
Discuss exactly how you would use operant conditioning to encourage a child to socialise.
Apply the perceptual recognition approach to explain smiling and fear in infants.
Evaluate Freud’s, Harlow’s and Bowlby’s explanations of the formation of mother-child attachments different.
Explain reflection-impulsivity and its significance in cognitive development.
Explain the strengths and weakness of social learning theory in explaining language acquisition.
Explain why you think that intelligence is or is not overall genetically determined. 

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  • Psychology
  • Child Psychology

Course programme

  1. Introduction to Child Psychology
    • Levels of development, nature or nurture, isolating hereditary
      characteristics, cause versus correlation, continuity versus discontinuity,
      cross sectional and longitudinal studies, reliability of verbal reports
  2. The Newborn Infant
    • The Interactionist approach, range of reaction, niche picking,
      temperament stimulus seeking, emotional disturbances during pregnancy
  3. States and Senses of the Infant
    • Sensory discrimination, infant states (sleep, inactivity, waking, crying etc),
      why psychologists are concerned with defining and describing infant states,
      habituation, crying, soothing a distressed baby, sensory discrimination,
      depth perception, oral sensitivity
  4. Learning
    • Habituation, vicarious learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning,
      reinforcement, the importance of learning control, etc
  5. Emotions and Socialisation
    • Producing and recognising emotional expression, smiling, biological explanation,
      perceptual recognition, mother-child Attachment, Freudian approach, Bowlby's approach,
      Social Learning approach, Harlow's approach, role of cognition in attachment formation, day care
  6. Cognitive Development
    • Developing the ability to reason.
  7. Language Development
    • Is language ability learned or innate? Social Learning Approach, Hypothesis testing approach,
      under extending
  8. Intelligence
    • Measuring Intelligence, Cultural Bias, IQ, Testing Intelligence as a tool.
  9. Socialisation ... Part A
    • Social Cognition, self awareness, awareness of others, development of empathy,
      taking turns, having a point of view/perspective, social scripts, pretend play
  10. Morality
    • Moral development, aggression and altruism, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg on moral development
  11. Sexuality
    • Freud's phases (oral phase, anal phase, phallic phase, latent phase, genital phase),
      gender and role Identity, psycho-social development
  12. Socialisation ... Part B
    • Family influence, discipline, siblings, family structures, school influence, peer influence,
      acceptance and rejection, modelling, reinforcement.

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