PSY 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Arnold Gesell, Active Child, Tabula Rasa

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Alba Agostino

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One is expressing sympathy: when parents respond to their children"s distress with sympathy, the children are better able to cope with the situation causing the distress. When children felt themselves becoming angry, they were to move away from other children and retreat into their turtle shell, where they could think through the situation until they were ready to emerge from the shell. Posters were placed around the classroom to remind children of what to do: knowledge of child development research can help teachers as well as parents when they became angry. How effective are health-education courses aimed at reducing teenage smoking, drinking, and pregnancy, and how can such courses be improved? : child-development research can inform discussion of all of these policy decisions and many others. Early philosophers" views of children"s development: plato and aristotle. Now of all wild things, a boy is the most difficult to handle.