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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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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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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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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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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How sound is the psychology of Westworld?
Disclaimer: I am very much a layman in these areas of research, so please do amend the question in order to conform to conventional usage of terminology and definitions thereof.
In the series ...
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Does any theory explain the tendency for toddlers to desire objects held by other toddlers?
Very often, I observe that a toddler A who currently focuses their attention on a specific toy or activity becomes distracted if another toddler ...
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Are innate intersubjectivity and theory of mind opposing theories or are they reconcilable?
What I get from Trevarthen's theory of innate intersubjectivity (2010) and the theory of theory of mind (Perner, 1999) is that they don't agree.
A considerable number of studies in theory of mind ...
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What is the effect of income on an adolescent's reward response to monetary vs. social reward?
I am asking a question related to adolescents and their response to either monetary or social reward.
What is the effect of income levels on monetary vs. social reward? Do higher income children ...
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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?
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Technical model of how babies and young children learn suited to a parent with an engineering background?
Background: I'm looking forward to be a father come fall. My son will have Downs Syndrome, so there are a lot of early interventions we have to think about to support our son - logopedics, ...
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How much tablet time is bad for kids?
In a Psychology Today blog we read:
When very small children get hooked on tablets and smartphones, says Dr. Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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INPP Neuromotor Immaturity
Can someone shed some light on this "Neuromotor Immaturity (NMI)" syndrome that's been mainly promoted/researched by a UK group called INPP. As you can seen from that page, they take themselves very ...
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Are there any studies that test for preference between balls and blocks in infants?
I was getting in the old round corners vs square corners conversation and the majority of arguments for rounded corners revolve around our subconscious desire for natural round things over artificial ...
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Why do we laugh more easily in social situations?
I ate lunch and then played pool with a co-worker after lunch today at our office. We get along quite well and talk often. Yet while socially engaged, instead of professionally, I found myself ...
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In what areas is kindergarten most effective developmentally?
I expect that state-funded kindergarten and pre-kindergarten would be most effective in areas where there is no state-funded day-care. Additionally, I would expect it to be most beneficial to the ...
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Comparison of assessments of cognitive skills in children
What test is better in terms of its usability and informativeness - WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) or BAS (British Ability Scales)?
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Are adult negativity or resentment related to an infant crying for attention?
I've recently came across an idea, expressed by a spiritual author Ekhart Tolle, that for adults, the internal experience of negativity or resistance to life situations can be far more harmful than ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Learning by listening versus learning by reading
I would like to know whether there is a study in psychology which compares the effectiveness of learning by reading versus learning by listening.
I would assume learning by reading is better because ...
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How do family conflicts and childhood experiences influence passive-aggressive behaviours in the workplace?
Possibly related but not a duplicate - "How does the personality of a successful leader influence the development of his children?"
Workplace behaviours and personality traits, e.g. passive-...
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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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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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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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Mirror neurons in different ape & child rearing
Somewhere in the the past I saw a study talking about a type of ape that raises it's young in creches, unlike chimpanzees which at most carefully choose occasional babysitters. The study made the case ...
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Longitudinal studies on: how attention to emotional stimuli develops from infancy to childhood?
According to LeDoux’s model (1996) we have specialized pathways for processing emotional cues. Pourtois, Schettino and Vuilleumier (2013) offer a neural model of how emotional signals capture ...
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Role of shared gaze/joint attention in infants for the development of executive function
I'm trying to find research on the role of interactions between caregiver and infant via shared gaze/joint attention for the development of executive abilities, including attention and inhibition. My ...
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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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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?
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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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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 ...
