...The Development of Self: A Comparison and Analysis of Child Self-Description Using Rosenberg Locus of Self Knowledge Abstract The concept of self is an ever developing process which begins from childhood. It accounts for the ability to initially identify ourselves using physical attributes and activities, progressing into descriptions which capture emotions and beliefs only privy to the individual. Open ended self-description questionnaires along with semi structured interviews were conducted with two female children aged eight and sixteen years old. Their responses were analysed and compared to identify whether a developmental trend existed. The results supported Rosenberg’s Locus of Knowledge theory; with age and experience children develop a self-reflexive sense of self separate to their caregivers. Although, methodical choices reduce the possibility of ecological validity. Introduction The general consensus amongst western theorists is the concept of ‘self’ as a progressive process. Fundamentally, the acknowledgement of self-existence, which Lewis (1990) refers to as the existential self. The awareness of ‘me’, the person, the ‘self-as-object’ or the ‘categorical self’ as described by James (1892) follows. This stage reflects a child’s ability to identify themselves, identifiable by others and socially categorised according to their relationships, gender and age. Cooley (1902) suggested ‘the looking glass self’ was another way people viewed their identities based...
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...Matthew Psychological Assessment PYC4807 Assignment 02 858953 Declaration I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own personal work, except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I have read and understood tutorial letter PSYHONM/301/0/2013 regarding technical and presentation requirements, referencing techniques and plagiarism. Matthew Table of contents This essay looks at the process you would follow in developing a psychological assessment measure. To better understand how this is achieved this paper will examine the principles of psychometric theory and how they are used to develop a psychological measure. To achieve this one must look at norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measures, the process used to develop a psychological measure, and the principles of reliability and validity. Norms When attempting to examine and understand what goes in to developing a psychological measure, one must first understand why psychological measures are used. In psychology psychological measures are used to measure characteristics of an individual, or a group of individuals, and compare them to others. However, when trying to measure an individual’s characteristics and compare them to others, one must first understand that there are different tests used to compare the results of these tests. These are referred to as norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. As Roodt explains, “with...
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...inspired from the above method; 3. A new stand alone discipline who is based on the knowledge acquired from applying the investigation method and clinical experiences. (Jones) The birth of psychoanalysis is given credit to a man named Sigmund Freud. He is considered the father and main influence on this field of psychology. “Freud lived most of his life in Vienna and died in London in 1939. He discovered psychoanalysis by systematizing ideas and information coming from different, theoretical and clinical directions.” (Jones) His research and ideas paved the way for modern psychotherapy to be used by doctors worldwide. Psychoanalysis has been used since the 1900’s to treat patients with underlying psychological problems. • Psychoanalytic psychologists see psychological problems as rooted in the unconscious mind. • Manifest symptoms are caused by latent (hidden) disturbances. • Typical causes include unresolved issues during development or repressed trauma. • Treatment focuses on bringing the repressed conflict to consciousness, where the client can deal with it. (McLeod) According to Freud, the mind was made up of three egos. The Id, ego, and superego. “The ego represents ongoing conscious experience or awareness, while the id and superego represent the subconscious, of which we are not aware. The interesting notion about the subconscious, as conceived by the psychoanalysts, is that it controls the vast majority of our behavior. It would follow then, that most...
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...mental health service providers. As the Baby Boomers become older adults over the next several years, one can expect both the need and the demand for mental health services to increase: Need is likely to change because Boomers have higher prevalence of depression and other mental disorders than do the GI Generation and Depression era cohorts; Demand may change because Boomers have typically been psychologically minded and relatively high consumers of mental health services. Key questions in thinking about working with older adults concern whether psychological interventions can be expected to work with older adults. If they work, are adaptations from work with younger adults necessary? In this resource page, research bearing on both of these questions is summarized. Does therapy work with older adults? Before turning to psychological interventions, which are the main focus of this resource guide, it should be noted that psychological assessment with older adults is more specialized than are interventions. The higher prevalence of the dementias in late life make some level of neuropsychological screening essential. The higher prevalence of medical disorders makes attention to physical causes of symptoms and to iatrogenic effects of medications as causes of symptoms highly important as well. For more on geropsychological assessment see Lichtenberg (1999). Gatz et al. (1998) reported...
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...Childhood: Impact of Early Intervention on Childhood Development Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing concern for children in their preschool years. Children of young ages undergo many developmental changes during the ages of two through five. These changes are significant for their growth and maturity. They include cognitive, social, and behavioral development as well as development in executive functioning. Sustaining a traumatic brain injury during these years can pose as a direct risk of developmental deficits in any or all of these areas. After an extensive literature review, it was found that most of the previous research resulted in areas of consensus. These areas compare the how TBI severity and the age of the TBI effect developmental. Results from multiple studies show that the more sever the TBI, the more prevalent the developmental deficiencies (Gerrard-Morris, A., Taylor, H., Yeates, K., Walz, N., Stancin, T., Minich, N., & Wade, S., 2009; McKinlay, A., Grace, R., Horward, L., Fergusson, D., & MacFarlane, M., 2008; Morse, S., Haritou, F., Ong, K., Anderson, V., Catroppa, C., & Rosenfeld, J., 1999; Taylor, H., Swartwout, M., Yeates, K., Walz, N., Stancin, T., & Wade, S., 2008). It is also found that children injured in early childhood are more vulnerable to developmental deficits, According to Taylor et. al (2008), a younger age at the time of injury is a predictor of worse outcomes. Although many researchers in this field have shared the previous findings...
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...Psychological Perspectives of Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Walden University Abstract This paper will provide an integrative summary of the contemporary issue of employee engagement/satisfaction from psychological perspectives studied in this course including developmental, cognitive, motivation, personality, and social psychology. Additionally, I will utilize the critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills learned in this course for this analysis. Psychological Perspectives of Employee Engagement Introduction As a recruiter in Human Resources, one reason I decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology and Development is to gain further insight into both individual and organizational behavior. I want to learn what makes an organization and the people working in the organization successful as well what factors hinder this success and how they can be overcome. I selected the contemporary topic of employee engagement/satisfaction for two reasons. First of all, this topic is relevant to my current role as I strive to assist our organization in attracting and retaining the right candidates for the right job. Secondly, this topic is of a personal interest to me as I am currently evaluation my own engagement and satisfaction in my current role. While I thoroughly enjoy my job, I am very interested in growing in my profession and am currently contemplating next steps for my career....
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...Developmental psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging and the entire life span. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and conceptual understanding; language acquisition; social, personality, and emotional development; and self-concept and identity formation. 3 major contexts to consider when analysing child psychology are: social context, cultural context, and socioeconomic context. Developmental psychology includes issues such as the extent to which development occurs through the gradual accumulation of knowledge versus stage-like development, or the extent to which children are born with innate mental structures versus learning through experience. Many researchers are interested in the interaction between personal characteristics, the individual's behavior, and environmental factors including social context, and their impact on development; others take a more narrowly-focused approach.Developmental psychology informs several applied fields, including: educational psychology, child psychopathology, and forensic developmental psychology. Developmental psychology...
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... emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder. * Although many behaviors could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with behavior in a clinical context. * There is a long history of attempts to understand and control behavior deemed to be aberrant or deviant (statistically, morally or in some other sense), and there is often cultural variation in the approach taken. * The field of abnormal psychology identifies multiple causes for different conditions, employing diverse theories from the general field of psychology and elsewhere, and much still hinges on what exactly is meant by "abnormal". * There has traditionally been a divide between psychological and biological explanations, reflecting a philosophical dualism in regards to the mind body problem. * There have also been different approaches in trying to classify mental disorders. * Abnormal includes three different categories, they are: * subnormal * supernormal * paranormal * The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. * Behaviors that are maladaptive suggest that some problem(s) exist, and can also imply that the individual is vulnerable and cannot cope with environmental stress, which is leading them to have problems functioning in daily life. * Clinical psychology is the applied field of psychology...
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...Developmental Psychology 2006, Vol. 42, No. 3, 391–394 Copyright 2006 by the American Psychological Association 0012-1649/06/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.3.391 Children, Adolescents, and the Internet: A New Field of Inquiry in Developmental Psychology Patricia Greenfield Zheng Yan University of California, Los Angeles University at Albany, State University of New York With this special section on children, adolescents, and the Internet, we survey the state of a new field of enquiry in developmental psychology. This field is important because developmentalists need to understand how children and adolescents live in a new, massive, and complex virtual universe, even as they carry on their lives in the real world. We have selected six empirical articles to showcase various aspects of child and adolescent development in this virtual universe. These articles reflect three major themes of this new field: the Internet. Encompassing the broad areas of cognitive and social development, these articles address a number of different specific developmental functions. Yan analyzes the factors influencing the development of an understanding of the Internet in both its technical and social dimensions. Jackson et al. demonstrate the positive impact of home Internet access on the reading achievement of low-income, mostly African American children. In the arena of social development, articles deal with five important foci of adolescent development: identity (Subrahmanyam et al.); self-worth...
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...antecedents, behavior, and consequences. As a result, direct assessment involving observations related to the ABC checklist and scatterplots are utilized as part of a functional behavioral analysis in Cognitive Behavioral Consultation (CBC) (Brown, Pryzwansky, and Schulte, 2011; Ellingson, Miltenberger, & Long, 1999). However, behaviorists do not place as much importance on other influences of behavior, such as thoughts, culture, environment, etc. (Brown et al., 2011). Due to the influence of cognitive and social learning theories, behavioral-eclectic models of consultation have been developed, which look at a broader range of influences to...
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... 567-589. Ackerman, P., Beier, M.E., & Boyle, M.O. (2005). Working memory and intelligence: the same or different constructs? Psychological Bulletin, 131(1),30-60. Alameda & Cuetos, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 Alameda, J. R. y Cuetos, F. (1995). Diccionario de frecuencia de las unidades lingüísticas del castellano. Oviedo: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo. Alameda, J. R. & Cuetos, F. (1996). Índices de frecuencia y vecindad ortográfica para un corpus de palabras de cuatro letras. Revista Electrónica de Metodología Aplicada, 1, 10-29. En http://www.uniovi.es/~Psi/REMA/ (junio de 2001). Alameda, J. R. (1997). Base de datos de no-palabras de cuatro letras para su uso en tareas experimentales de decisión léxica. Revista Electrónica de Metodología Aplicada, 2, 1-49. En http://www.uniovi.es/~Psi/REMA/ (junio de 2001). Alameda, J. R. & Cuetos, F. (2001). Índices de frecuencia y vecindad para palabras de cinco letras. Revista Electrónica de Metodología Aplicada, 6 (2). En http://www.uniovi.es/~Psi/REMA. Alloway, 2006 Alloway TP (2006).How does working memory work in the classroom? Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 1 (4), pp. 134-139, July 2006 Alloway, T.P. (2009). Working memory, but not IQ, predicts subsequent learning in children with learning difficulties. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 25(2), 92-98. Alloway, T.P. (2011). A comparison of working memory profiles in children with ADHD and...
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...Psy/201 Tabitha R. Kelleher Developmental Stage and analysis Paper. People during the course of their lifetimes, go through various changes as grown-ups and children. During the individual's life, they will go through various possible cognitive, social, physical, and character changes. Annie, who is 13 years of age, teenager and in 6th grade, begins her pubescent stage following the adolescence time ending. She is described as a “youth” or “young adult” by a majority of folks. Ages of teens are from 13 years old to 21 years of age. Noticeably, Annie, like a lot of other young girls during this stage, arrives from several changes in her life as her body prepares to evolve. Throughout this period in Annie’s life, she will begin puberty bringing on multiple emotional, physical and cognitive alterations in her character and physique. “Puberty” is the moment of development at which the person can reproduce sexually. (Lahey, 2010, p.334). A number of distinct physical changes take place throughout puberty. As a result, Annie’s body will start evolving, because of the increase in estrogen. Annie’s Transformation The largest and distinct developmental transition in Annie’s body will be growth spurts. Throughout the time, this girl can develop in any place from 8 inches and 12 inches in stature, and it is healthy for consuming habits to move from consuming small servings to eating bigger meals. While Annie starts to eat more substantial portions, causing her body to begin...
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...dreams because he believes that they are a key to her unconscious mind. In this scenario, Donald is most likely using the _____ approach to psychology. Selected Answer: psychodynamic Correct Answer: psychodynamic Question 5 George, a scientist, is studying how the levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain create the condition of depression. George's study fits best into the area of specialization known as _____. Selected Answer: behavioral neuroscience Correct Answer: behavioral neuroscience Question 6 A psychologist's research focuses on how ecological changes affect a child's growth. The psychologist's focus fits best into the area of specialization known as _____ psychology. Selected Answer: developmental Correct Answer: developmental Question 7 Which of the following statements is true of industrial and organizational psychology? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Industrial psychology focuses on personnel matters; organizational psychology focuses on organizational leadership. Industrial psychology focuses on personnel matters; organizational psychology focuses on organizational leadership. Question 8 Bianco Inc. is struggling with the low productivity and high turnover of its employees. Management at Bianco consults...
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...already have, in a language which he or she is in the process of learning. The writer thinks that one of our greatest difficulties in establishing a psychology of second language learning which is relevant to the way people actually learn second languages, has been our inability to identify unambiguously the phenomena we wish to study. I agree with the writer, because we have difficulty in learning second language and a correct understanding of this phenomenon leads to the postulation of certain theoretical constructs. These constructs in turn, give us a framework within which we can begin to isolate the psychological relevant data of second language learning. Interlanguage and Latent Structure There is psychological structure which is latent in the brain, activated when one attempts to learn a second language. Lenneberg coined the term ‘latent psychological structure’. According to him, it is...
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...RUNNING HEAD: CULTURE AND PARENTING Culture and parenting Introduction Parenting is the first and likely most important mechanism through which culture is reproduced (Cauce, 2008). Every child is born into a certain circumstance and learns through interactions with the surroundings. Parents are generally the first and key people in a child’s life, so it should come as no surprise that parenting has influences on the development of children’s temperament, which later impacts their school performance. This article is going to explore how parenting varies among different ethnic groups including Asian Americans, African American, Latinos, and European Americans. More specifically, what factors should be included when considering the parenting characteristics of a unique ethnic group and what implications might they have for schooling today. Theories Two of the modern theories that are concerned with cultural influences on human development are Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. First, Vygotsky’s theory defined culture as the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a social group. His Sociocultural Theory focuses on how culture is transmitted to the next generation. According to Vygotsky, social interaction – in particular, cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society – is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking...
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