Questions tagged [developmental-psychology]
For questions involving psychological changes taking place during the lifespan of an individual, not just during infancy or childhood, and using multiple approaches.
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literature review research transgender youth of color
I'm currently working on a review of the literature. I'm looking for research on how community support can help trans youth of color. For instance, there is research that suggests that trans youth of ...
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Which theories of social/emotional development should be included in an undergraduate child psychology course?
I teach an undergraduate child psychology course. My specialty is cognitive development, and I am not so knowledgeable about social/emotional development, which accounts for about 1/3rd of the course. ...
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Intervention for gender dysphoria: Challenge the patient’s idea of gender roles and expectations?
According to the DSM-5, gender dysphoria is
a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned
gender.
This might be something which arises out of the patient’s perception ...
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How do young children (toddlers) experience social pressure, such as apparent "embarrassment"?
I have a child who just turned two. When dropping them off at daycare, I said something to them in front of a small number of their peers (asked them about a song they like singing at home) which I ...
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Research on the effects on separating school pupils from their friends
Recently I read that schools will sometimes separate school friends into different classes with one parent on an online forum saying in 2013 that:
The principal admitted that they try to separate ...
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Looking for literature on detailed developmental milestones (and their prerequisites) for a child of a given age
I would like to know if there is any scientific literature on the detailed developmental milestones in different domains(cognitive, language etc.,) that a child of a given age is supposed to reach.
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What happened in the fifth year of the girl that made her afraid of her father in the book "The Theory of Psychoanalysis"?
The case in question is that of an intelligent girl of eleven years of age, of good family. Dr. Jung starts discussing her in his book, on page 113 ("A CASE OF NEUROSIS IN A CHILD"), at one ...
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Right Attitude toward Reality is Way of Concrete Sexuality
I am reading an old pdf copy of The Theory of Psychoanalysis, By C. G. JUNG and trying to understand the following:
This is the misunderstanding fallen into by so many neurotic people, who believe ...
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Are correlations between intelligence domains expected to increase or decrease over childhood and adolescence?
I've been reading a lot of different theories about how intelligence develops over childhood and adolescence, and I'm wondering about one specific aspect of it: The change or stability of the ...
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Why does Cross-sex hormone therapy have an opposite effect on cortical thickness?
In a recent lecture I was informed that cross-sex hormone therapy increases the cortical thickness in FtMs, but decreases CTh in MtFs. Why does this happen when studies find females have increased ...
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Why do expat children acquire accents more effectively than adults?
I’ve seen a number of children go through the same process, and I’m asking this question because I’d love to understand them better.
Children, after relocating to a country with a language with which ...
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How would a human baby's brain develop if born in a sensory deprivation chamber?
According to Scientific American, people who are blind can learn to use their sense of hearing more efficiently. Similarly, deaf people, may learn to utilize their vision more effectively. While the 5 ...
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Correlation between sexual repression in adolescents and sexual deviancy later in life?
Is there a correlation between sexual repression and sexual deviancy?
Now we all have heard stories of people growing up in incredibly strict households that become some of the most exploratory and ...
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How important is it for a child to have a limited number of caregivers?
In the context of instituational child care, I have heard that a child needs to form an attachment with a limited number of people to function properly. However, now when I tried to find some sources ...
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Why does an infant experience shame as shyness when some unknown face looks at him/her?
In the book "Healing the shame that binds you" by John Bradshaw (link to Google Books sample pages - scroll to page 10), there is a section about healthy shame and it's described how healthy ...
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If an infant endures a short period of trauma, followed by a normal childhood, is it likely that trauma could still be developmentally damaging?
I know that traumatic stress as an infant can cause serious developmental problems down the line, especially regarding attachment styles and identity development. But I'm wondering if that extends to ...
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How is psychohistory theory of deMause viewed in academia?
I've recently came across the psychohistory theory of deMause. To best of my understanding,
it roughly tries to capture the common psychology of an era by analyzing the childbearing practices of that ...
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Is there any evidence that people follow crowds less at a certain age?
A while back I saw a chart of psychological development milestones, and it said around the age of 28 people tend to think less in a collective and more on their own. I can't find the chart nor can I ...
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Can an autistic person have very advance language skills?
Can an autistic person have very advanced language skills (Verbal communication, not about tonal nor body language skill, nor the written verbal language, I keep dyslexia out of this discussion for ...
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What's the most appropriate statistical analysis to run for a correlational study?
I am designing a correlational study experiment to test children on their performance on a task at $t_1$ and then at $t_2$ a year later, specifically using the balance-scale paradigm (Siegler, 1981). ...
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Is there an example of a major mental handicap being rectified similar to Awakenings, the 1990 film and 1973 nonfiction book?
For those born with cognitive impairment, could technology progress to a point where their disability is rectified to a level of regular human faculty? In the movie and memoir, Awakenings, a new drug ...
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Techniques to combat sexism at school level
I am from India, and if you take a glance at the daily news you will see a lot of gruesome gangrapes and murders. Nirbhaya, Kathua rape case and the Hathras gangrape
There are other such incidents ...
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Requirements and development of depth and spatial orientation sensing
I'm trying to understand from the signal processing perspective how the perception of depth and the ability of spatial orientation is calculated by our brains. One possible explanation seems to be ...
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Is there any formal understanding of how humans perceive humanity/vitality in other entities?
When humans watch animations which contain human-like characters in them, we seem to imagine that the animated individuals, whether they be photorealistic or mere stick figures, are human, or at least ...
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Approaches to assigning chores to children
I was discussing with my fiancée about our expectations of our future children to perform chores at home. While we do both agree that chores are to be performed (in accordance to the child's ...
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How do we call a tendency of young children to accept things as facts without doubting them?
I have noticed that young children don't doubt a lot of things. If a teacher tell them "1+1=2", they usually just learn it without questioning. When those children get older, they often start to ...
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How to learn about children using hitting affectionately
When I am about to leave, my youngest son will show affection by hugging me before I leave. When we are playing a game and he is really enjoying it, he will actually smile at me and hit me really ...
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Death caused by "Failure to Thrive" (FTT)
This question, whilst to a degree can be seen as "common sense" in some respects, has puzzled me in other ways.
Looking at the situations where Failure to Thrive (FTT) can cause death, even ...
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Appropriate age grouping for studying linguistic development
I am publishing a survey on a crowdsourcing platform to study how people of different ages perceive certain aspects of non-literal language. The platform allows me to target people with ages in ...
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Are TV shows and songs designed for children developmentally more beneficial than regular ones?
I have zero background in psychology, and only slightly more experience with children.
But as someone who was once a child, and who is consistenly confused by the media created explicitly for ...
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Special treatment of youngest member of a group
In the German language, there is a term for the youngest member of a family: "Nesthäkchen".
Unfortunately, on Wikipedia I can't find any more details - only the book/film with the same title has a ...
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What fraction of the population has secure attachment style?
Attachment theory suggests that we divide attachment styles into secure attachment style vs insecure attachment styles.
What fraction of the population would be classified as having a secure ...
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Does this Rat psychological developmental mechanism also work in human?
In this epigenetics tutorial by University of Utah (Browser requires to support and allow adobe flash player); it is shown that in rat model those rat kids get little or no maternal care, whenn adult, ...
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The differences in attachment between father and mother
Bowlby's attachment talks about the primary caregiver, it does not specify mother or father, even though it is mostly the mother. I want to know more about the specific roles of the father and mother ...
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How are attachment styles linked to personality disorders
There are three different patterns of behavior in the so called strange situation in which the caregiver leaves the infant for a while and a stranger comes in the room. These behavioral patterns are ...
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Is Autism associated with an increased drowning risk for adults?
I have found several popular articles (e.g. ScienceDaily, The Globe and Mail, and WebMD) indicating that children with Autism have a significantly elevated risk of drowning. The general theory seems ...
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What is a science concept that we can teach preschoolers that's purely visual?
We are trying to develop a scientific study to test preschoolers (3-5 years old) ability to learn a new science concept. The problem is that children that young can only remember concepts based on how ...
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Possession/Concept of My
Has any one studied whether are not in the predevelopment stage, or in any developmental stage whether the concept of possessing, or ownership comes into light in the psyche of an individual grasping ...
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How can a human carry out a mass shooting whilst remaining calm?
In the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Christchurch New Zealand, it became known that the shooter had live streamed 17 minutes of his rampage to Facebook. In the video, of which I have only ...
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How to measure child to adult development quantitatively?
Are there any tests available that could quantify a personal development from child to adult if the development is more or less healthy and is not considered pathological?
I'm absolutely new to the ...
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Do vulnerable/covert/shy narcissists seek therapy for NPD?
It is known that common (a.k.a. overt, flamboyant) narcissists rarely seek therapy on their own. However, there is an atypycal type of narcissism called “shy”, “covert” or “vulnerable“. They behave ...
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Why do we dream? [duplicate]
Most of the people have their own imagination and most of them dream about many things and some time dream about those things which they have never seen, so how we will define the fact that why do we ...
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Nature vs. Nurture
In the following I have 4 questions which I think are too interleaved to separate into 4 different posts. I hope it's not a duplicate, but I didn't find here similar posts.
My understanding (as a ...
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Is Paul's Churchland claim about qualia supported by science?
Knowledge argument:
Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor. She specializes ...
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What's the psychological reason for the fascination with gossiping or scandalous life?
Why do people find fascination in a tabloid magazine, paparazzi magazine, gossiping or whether prince and kings are dating or not or if actors, actresses, singers having any scandalous affairs or not?
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Does James Holmes diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder indicate a predisposition for mass murder?
On May 27, Dr. William Reid, a court-appointed psychiatrist who
interviewed Holmes for a total of about 22 hours, testified that
Holmes was mentally ill but legally sane, diagnosing him as having
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Is there any research on what causes a pseudo-scientific mindset?
As of late I've been coming across a lot of people online who are convinced that, without much (or any) formal training and often without any collaboration, they have solved a major unsolved problem ...
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How to statistically test whether parents and children share similar humor styles?
I have data from children and their parents on their humor styles (using the Humor Styles Questionnaire by Martin (2003)).
For the adult version: It's a 32-item measure, with 4 subscales for each ...
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What is the corresponding study about the effects of growing up without a mother?
We know that deprivation of a father affects development of children - and leads to them being angrier and more depressed as an adult:
‘This is the first time research findings have shown that ...
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What is the study that identified that kids growing up without fathers were angrier and more depressed?
I read in an article recently:
This study identified that kids growing up without fathers had a higher proportion of people developing depression, increased tendency towards anger and a higher ...
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