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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Is there a disorder similar to dyscalculia but only for time/date arithmetic? (also memory)
Something that might be used to describe an individual who:
can perform arithmetic at an advanced level (e.g. post graduate)
does not generally struggle with memory
can easily remember the relative ...
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What is the optimal way to run the Piaget Conservation of Number Task?
I am hoping to run a standard Piaget conservation task to test the conservation of number. The task is as follows:
Coins such as pennies are placed on a table. A certain number of
coins are ...
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How can I test reaction time?
How can I measure someone's ability for the speed to which they react to something? Is their a way to test something like a person's reaction timing that doesn't involve something as simple as the ...
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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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What are the criticisms of Jung? [duplicate]
Jungian psychology seems to have established itself in our culture (books and films draw on its archetypes etc) and, although I am by no means an expert, it seems analytical psychology is broadly ...
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What is the difference between Symbolism and Abstract thinking in Piaget's Theory?
I'm having trouble understanding the difference between symbols and abstract thinking in Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory. Piaget says that in the preoperational stage, children 2-7 years old can ...
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Psychological effects of being recorded as genderless at birth
I was reading this article about a Canadian parent fighting for the right to not give their baby a gender after arguing that a simple biological examination cannot uncover the child’s true identity.
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Is dyslexia less common among visually impaired?
I couldn't find any information on whether dyslexia is equally prevalent in normally sighted people and among visually impaired people who learned reading and writing through braille?
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Does creativity decrease when invested in multiple areas?
I'm a math student and I find that coming up with original ideas and being creative is very important in the field. I love math and I'm also a voracious reader and I like to learn about many things ...
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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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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 ...
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Erik Erikson: "We live in a continuous process of making the present 'former' "
I'm reading Identity: Youth and Crisis and I was particularly struck by this passage:
However, I'm completely lost by the idea that we are in constant process of making the present into the past - I ...
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Father hunger syndrome
I found the father-hunger syndrome. Does anyone knows if there is another, maybe more official term for that?
Any sources that someone could use for the particular syndrome?
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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 ...
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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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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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Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more to their infants and toddlers?
Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more while White parents used adjectives more and had implications for causal and math learning?
Please give the citation of the ...
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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 ...
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What are "daddy issues"?
The question is whether there exists a phenomenon in which a girl that had a bad relationship with a father (referring to a father that's too harsh, too cruel or that doesn't show love, and hates his ...
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How does parental expectation lead a child from adaptive perfectionism to rebelliousness?
I find many sources saying that parents with perfectionist ideals can ultimately push a child to shed his or her attitude of wanting to please their parents and become rebellious. What I cannot find ...
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Is there a developmental purpose to adolescent transgressions?
Many adolescents transgress rules and break laws, not out of criminal intent or because they have some disorder, but "for fun", as an adventure, for the experience.
How is this explained from the ...
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Jung - Anima and Animus
In the book Man and His Symbols Jung discusses the Anima and Animus extensively. As I understand it they are the two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the collective unconscious. The Anima is ...
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What are the main sensory features of earliest memories of childhood?
I understand that experiences are compound in nature and take inputs from multiple senses. But when I ask people to describe the sense associated with their earliest memories I get answers that vary. ...
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Do women have fetishes?
As in title; is it possible/common for women to have fetishes?
It always seemed to me that fetishes are related to men only. Is it true?
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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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Why do people want to have children? [closed]
Sooner or later most people will want to have children. What are some of the most common psychological reasons leading people to want to have children? What are their motivations and expectations?
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How to deal with a friend who cuts [closed]
I am asking here since I have no idea where else I could of asked. I have a friend who is having difficulties with depression. I don't how long this has been ongoing, but he is often down. I presume ...
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What if people understand or interpret words differently in their mind?
Let's think about it, we have all adopted to learn the meaning of words through experiences or emotions. We didn't learn each and every word from a dictionary. What if I understand a word slightly ...
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Why are Children always so interested in adults? [closed]
I work as a kindergarten teacher, and it's always fascinating to me that children are so quick to be affectionate and take interest in what their teacher is doing. Is there an evolutionary reason for ...
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how can the development of sexual preferences be influenced?
I am wondering about the development of sexual fetishes, not necessarily in its meaning of having a sexual affection for inanimate objects, but in its broader meaning of any type of sexual abnormality....
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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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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 ...
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Does spanking a child teach them that it's ok for another person to touch them against their will?
The debate over whether spanking is an appropriate punishment largely revolves around proponents saying that it creates a more "disciplined" person and opponents saying that it traumatizes the child ...
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How liking and disliking mechanism is developed? [duplicate]
Every one likes different things, places, people, colors, flowers etc.
I am interested to know how this mechanism is developed in individuals. If we suppose that it is started from home.
Then why ...
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How do children understand the concept of number size?
How do children understand that one number is larger than the other? For example, given the numbers "8" and "9", how do they learn that "9" is the larger one? This apparently develops as a precursor ...
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Does individual understanding or perception, determine dream lucidity?
Does dream lucidity come with understanding the mechanisms of the world, age, or something else?
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Children's progression from counting to addition
How do children progress from counting to addition?
I understand that an grasp of counting is achieved before an understanding of cardinality (size of a set of objects). Thus, there does seem to be ...
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Do online mental age tests have any scientific validity?
If you google for 'mental age calculator', you can find several tests that claim being able to assess your mental age, as opposed to your chronological age.
Is 'mental age' a valid scientific ...
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Is there any credible evidence for the theory of Spiral Dynamics?
Spiral dynamics is a developmental psychology based theory that postulates these main ideas:
Organisms in the universe go through a predictable set of stages of psychological development.
These ...
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Does classical music enhance intelligence in children more than other genres?
This question is based on a previous question I have written on Parenting SE: Does playing classical music for infants and young children make them smarter?
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Are these claims actually ...
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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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Have any drugs been shown to increase the neuroplasticity of adult brains?
I read recently in the book "meet your happy chemicals" that the hormones of puberty are neurochemicals that cause your neurons to connect and myelinate more easily.
If this is true have any studies ...
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