Research in Child Development Psychology 2510 – Fall 2011 Instructor: John Rieser (j.rieser@vanderbilt.edu; 322-8347) This is the Fall 2011 Syllabus The Fall 2012 Syllabus will be similar but not exactly the same Course Description Purpose of the course: The course meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:45 to 10:00 in Mayborn 105. My office hours are Wednesdays from 10-12 and nearly anytime by appointment in Hobbs 217a. The course is about experimental methods of research on child development
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What is child development? Why study child development? Child development involves the scientific study of changes in the child’s biological‚ social‚ cognitive and emotional behaviour across the span of childhood. Every child’s development is unique and complex. Although children develop through a generally predictable sequence of steps and milestones‚ they may not proceed through these steps in the same way or at the same time. Psychologists and development researchers have proposed a number of
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Social and Moral Development As children grow and develop‚ they go through a variety of stages responsible for their social and moral development. The stages that Kohlberg has presented provide a framework of information that we are able to gather data from and identify behaviors as the child progresses through normal human development. Just like most things‚ social and moral development is molded by the surrounding environment and individual interactions. Just like the many other factors that
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Project #2: Child Observation February 24‚ 2011 Observation Write-up: For this project I observed a 6 year old boy named Michael. Michael is a good friend of my son Dylan and our families are somewhat close‚ it had been sometime since our last visit together when we arranged a play date for the purpose of this project. We chose to go up to the mountains to play in the snow. Our two families drove in separate cars and upon arriving at our destination we greeted
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The Child study data gathered has originated from observations taken at Water of Life Christian School. Water of Life Christian School is located in Fontana‚ California. In this morning class there is approximately 24 students‚ 3 teacher aids‚ and 1 lead aid named Tara. The child that this child study focuses on is named Jonathan‚ Jonathan is 3 years and 7 months old. Jonathan was chosen for this study for he was very active and vocal‚ when overlooking the whole class Jonathan was seen playing by
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Child Care Observation I observed children at ABC Child Development Center in the 3 year old classroom on March 1‚ 2010 from 8am until 11am. The classroom had a very diverse composition in the classroom‚ Hispanic‚ African American‚ Caucasian‚ Native American‚ and Asian (Vietnamese). In addition to diversity the ABC child development focus on maintaining a child centered environment that allows children to learn at their own pace. The classroom had 2 teachers and 24 children in attendance during
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experimental observations with young children who had been given the freedom they need d in an environment that was fully prepared with all the materials and was specifically designed to support their self-directed learning experiences (Montessori‚ 1977). Factor generating an amazing child Law of Will A child’s development of will has been regarded as one of the laws of development as per Montessori’s observations. She herself has clearly indicated how she observed this development of a child’s
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of the child. He is very active‚ curious‚ and reacted adequately to his age group in various life situations during the observation. The child was in a good mood‚ he smiled; there were no signs of probable illness which could be noticed in such a short period of time. The boy was in a good mood‚ didn’t behave capriciously. So‚ we may conclude that the child is healthy. Taking into account the location of observation it was impossible to see all the skills and achievements of the child in movements
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After learning through text about the acts and reactions of an infant‚ we were able to observe these different acts on different children and notice how they differ from each other. On March 21‚ we had our class baby day and observed the children in the center of the room filled with different objects to play with. The child I observed was Alaina. Alaina is a seventeen month old Hispanic girl. She is very adorable and in my opinion‚ is much smaller than most 17 month old babies I have seen. When
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TMA 01 ED209 CHILD DEVELOPMENT Research of evidence‚ which describes the development of infants’ sensory abilities and how research has generated this knowledge. This assay will describe the development of infant’s senses of their 18 months of life and will define how this knowledge has generated. The development of the sensory and the nervous system is not whole at birth and will continue to mature until the adolescence. As babies cannot express themselves with words it has to
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