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.
196
questions
2
votes
1
answer
46
views
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 ...
- 196
3
votes
1
answer
341
views
ADHD Symptoms Emerging in Adolescence or Young Adulthood
I recently read a fascinating article about the pattern of young women receiving ADHD diagnoses after first displaying symptoms in their late teens or early twenties, typically corresponding to ...
CommunityBot
- 1
2
votes
2
answers
154
views
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 ...
0
votes
1
answer
132
views
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 ...
CommunityBot
- 1
9
votes
2
answers
2k
views
What are the effects of hebephilia on victims?
Following the Milo Yiannopoulos shebang, I had a discussion with a friend over the effects on a sexually maturing teenager (14ish) engaging in sexual behavior with a significantly older adult (at ...
- 18.8k
5
votes
1
answer
210
views
Can bipolar develop in childhood?
Is it possible to develop bipolar in childhood? Does the same diagnostic criteria for bipolar in adults apply for children?
CommunityBot
- 1
6
votes
1
answer
4k
views
What happens to someone missing teenage years of development?
Hypothetically, let's say a person were to fall into a coma as an adolescent for several years, until they were a physical adult.
Would that person, assuming the brain was still fully functional upon ...
- 11.9k
4
votes
1
answer
181
views
Is love from families a necessity for children to form normal relationship?
Some human skills need specific input during childhood to develop, such as language skills. Is the ability to love one of them? I.e., does the formulation of intimate relationship with partner (or any ...
CommunityBot
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
477
views
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 ...
0
votes
0
answers
16
views
Database for scored attachment style questionnaire
Is there a database / list of questions for attachment styles and how they are scored on the attachment orientations?
5
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Can a person with multiple personality disorder have one of their personality based on a real person?
Can a person with multiple personality disorder have one of their personality based on a real person encountered during their lifetime? For example, in a family with multiple children, can one of the ...
3
votes
3
answers
198
views
What is the most effective treatment for ADD and ADHD that excludes chemical prescriptions from a doctor?
Besides chemical medications that are prescribed that can increase the level of dopamine, and other important neurotransmitters in the brain. What is the most effective natural treatment method for ...
- 21
5
votes
0
answers
36
views
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 ...
4
votes
4
answers
4k
views
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 ...
0
votes
1
answer
50
views
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.
A ...
- 11.9k
15
votes
1
answer
328
views
Computational models of early learning in children
What are currently used biologically plausible computational models/frameworks of early learning in children?
Personally, I have used cascade correlation neural nets to model pronoun acquisition in ...
CommunityBot
- 1
8
votes
1
answer
213
views
Introductory resources on developmental psychology/neuroscience
I'd like to be able to answer questions such as:
What neuro/psychological functions underly competences such as empathy (or others - see background below)?
What neurotransmitters are of particular ...
CommunityBot
- 1
3
votes
1
answer
76
views
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 ...
- 6,759
1
vote
1
answer
7k
views
Psychological behavior of talking alone in front of mirror.
My child, 5 years old girl recently talked to herself about she just changed to new school in front of mirror. It was alone and she just talked to herself on mirror. Is it psychologically normal ...
- 1
13
votes
3
answers
3k
views
What is the effect of motherese on development?
Most cultures (Falk, 2009) have a special type of language that is used to talk to children: infant-directed-speech (IDL; or informally, motherese, baby talk). For instance, Fernald (1992) argues that ...
- 11.9k
3
votes
0
answers
69
views
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 ...
- 31
22
votes
2
answers
4k
views
What is the effect of viewing pornography on children?
It is generally accepted that porn shouldn't be seen by children, and we even sometimes punish parents who fail to stop their children from finding porn.
How much are these laws based in science? Can ...
- 18.8k
5
votes
0
answers
37
views
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 ...
- 51
2
votes
0
answers
54
views
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 ...
- 6,759
3
votes
0
answers
76
views
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 ...
- 18.8k
2
votes
2
answers
728
views
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 ...
CommunityBot
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
149
views
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 ...
- 37
2
votes
1
answer
361
views
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 ...
- 11.9k
3
votes
0
answers
63
views
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 ...
- 305
2
votes
0
answers
35
views
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 ...
2
votes
0
answers
20
views
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 ...
2
votes
1
answer
110
views
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). ...
- 6,759
2
votes
0
answers
33
views
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 ...
- 392
28
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Perception of time as a function of age
For many people time seems to run faster as they get older. That is, for an old person an hour, a day or a year seems to be shorter than for a young person.
Is there any hard data for such phenomenon?...
- 165
5
votes
0
answers
52
views
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 ...
2
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Boys and the obsession with war [closed]
Recently, I have been wondering why boys are so attracted to war and war-specific video games. Perhaps it is improper of me to assume that this obsession only applies to boys, but for the most part I ...
8
votes
0
answers
121
views
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 ...
CommunityBot
- 1
10
votes
2
answers
629
views
Conscious basis for gender identification
What conscious experiences lead a transgender person to identify with the opposite sex?
Physiology is clearly not determining.
Sexual orientation is not determining (homosexuality).
Clothing ...
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
40
views
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 ...
- 111
3
votes
3
answers
8k
views
Is it possible to increase the capacity of human brain like “Lucy”?
I saw the film "Lucy" in 2015. The film says that humans can use 100% percent of the capacity of their brains.
According to my personal ideas, the capacity of the brain will changed based on the ...
1
vote
0
answers
50
views
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 ...
- 1
58
votes
3
answers
19k
views
If babies were isolated, would they develop their own language?
Let’s say that two or more babies/infants from the age of 0 were put in an environment without the affection of adults to teach them how to speak. Would the babies after 13 or so years develop their ...
- 1,349
2
votes
0
answers
35
views
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 ...
- 121
2
votes
1
answer
33
views
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 ...
- 1,349
9
votes
1
answer
738
views
How does the personality of a successful leader influence the development of his children?
Successful leadership appears to depend on the personality of the leader. Judge et al. (2002) found the following correlations with the "big five" personality factors in a meta-analysis:
...
CommunityBot
- 1
3
votes
1
answer
249
views
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 ...
CommunityBot
- 1
3
votes
0
answers
44
views
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 ...
- 81
0
votes
0
answers
38
views
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 ...
2
votes
1
answer
80
views
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 ...
- 83
2
votes
0
answers
67
views
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, ...
- 462