PSY 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Random Assignment, Critical Period, External Validity
24 Apr 2016
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Emmy werner: lead of a child-development research group in 1955 who conducted a longitudinal study on all 698 children born 1955 on the island of kauai, hawaii. Why study child development: improve child-rearing practices, promote effective social policies regarding children"s welfare, and gain an insight into human nature. Despite its 50-66% prevalence in canada, spanking is counterproductive to a child"s anger management skills. A productive way of teaching anger management is helping children understand their emotions and providing positive outlets to help them cope with hostile feelings. The turtle technique is a method aimed at preschoolers to allow them time to sit quietly and think through a situation before acting on their anger. With repetitive questioning children often change their response. A resulting social policy is that 3-5 year olds are not asked leading questions repeatedly. Anatomically accurate dolls used for sexual abuse recollection increase the number of inaccurate claims through association of fantasy play.
