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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How similar are the brains of twins?
I am currently reading undergraduate essays on biological dysfunction and schizophrenia. The students put a lot of weight in the fact that studies of monozygotic twins show only a 50% rate of ...
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Why do people look in the face or eyes while communicating?
While communicating, people tend to direct their gazes to the face (particularly eyes) of people. Why don't rather we look at their neck or just their chest or even their hair while communicating with ...
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Ability to learn math and age of children [closed]
Is age of children strongly related to ability to learn various mathematical topics (e.g., percentages, common fractions)? I ask because many students in the elementary grades struggle with math ...
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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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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).
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Does masturbation affect brain in long term?
I am interested in knowing.
Does masturbation (once daily) affect the brain negatively in terms of: Memory and concentration skills during the long term ?
Does it affect it in the short term?
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How many words are toddlers "making up"?
My 20-month old has learned many words to express herself. In addition she says many other words that are indecipherable from context nor pronunciation. It's most noticeable in novel or unusual ...
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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 ...
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What is the correlation between the development of the sense of self and the senses?
Children develop different senses of self at a couple of different ages. Normally developing children pass the 'Sally-Anne' test at about 4 years of age and the 'Mirror test' at around 18 months. My ...
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Dynamical systems theory as a metaphor in psychology: is it useful or not?
Dynamical systems theory as it is used in the context of developmental psychology, and by some psychoanalysts as in this article or in this video by the first speaker can be described as an attempt to ...
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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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Neurological basis of selfishness?
Is there a neurological component to selfishness?
Awhile back, I witnessed a mentally retarded person who was severely possessive of a water fountain, claiming it was "his".
I've also seen ...
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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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What causes people to rapidly lose skill after becoming moderately good at something?
I've noticed that people often manage to become moderately good at something, but seem to reach some sort of peak at that level and then rapidly start getting worse again.
I've seen this happen with ...
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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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Name of a cognitive test assessing whether a child can think independently
I am looking for a names / examples of a tests that determine if the child is thinking on its own (I have tried searching on wikipedia topics about cognitive sciences/ psychology etc. with no luck). ...
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Is there a psychological explanation for the age of 18 being important in many societies?
The age of eighteen is an age that in many societies gives rise to various additional rights and responsibilities.
Is there a scientific reason for assigning such right and responsibilities at the ...
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Is there any evidence of a relationship between learning music and increased ability in Mathematics?
I've had more than one mathematics teacher say to me that they had heard of a link between music and maths ability. I thought I observed it informally myself, but it was difficult to tell if those ...
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What article looked at the relationship between bedtime stories and national productivity?
I've been told of an article about the effects of bedtime stories. The findings of this article are that countries in which the more popular bedtime stories are active were more productive than the ...
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Innate personality tests: do they exist? If not, why?
A personality is developed by innate factors and by the things that happen in your life, but how would your personality be if you either had received the same amount of positive and negative stimuli ...
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Why does regular repetition become a habit?
Humans have the tendency to develop habits. Habits of an individual can be different, same, or unique.
Some have a habit of talking too much (chatty), drawing a box around the answer of mathematical ...
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Is there any evidence to suggest telling puns to a child makes them enjoy it when they are older?
My own experience was that my father and grandfather retold many puns as I was in my childhood and teens; at the time, I thought it was abysmal.
Now I think they're the funniest things ever.
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Is there any plausible answer for naturally explaining veridical perception in near death experiences?
Is there any way to explain veridical perception in near death experiences and out of body experiences, naturally? Or is it strong evidence that the mind is a soul?
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At what point in our life do we know what is real?
Is "real" or reality defined during childhood, or as adults? Is this caused by age, or an event?
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Does logical thinking or counting develop first in children?
During the course of normal brain development, what comes first:
logical thinking or
counting?
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What are the visual cognitive abilities of a new born?
We know that a newborn (3 days or less) can mimic facial expressions such as tongue protrusion and head movement. This means that the child can detect faces, segment various parts of face like tongue, ...
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What are some psychologically normal reasons for a parent to reject their child?
In family psychology are there any normal (not abnormal) reasons to give up and cut off communication with your child (adult or otherwise)? I would think it would be rational to have a closed adoption ...
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What maladaptive behaviours or cognitive distortions develop as a result of chronic childhood illness?
It's fairly well documented that childhood trauma (such as chronic illness) can lay the neurochemical groundwork for conditions like depression later in life. A paper, "The link between childhood ...
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At what age do children typically reach adult reading speed?
A kid who just started to read puts a lot of effort in processing sentences. These efforts will decrease as he/she gets older and, at some point (around 12, 15?), will read as fast as an adult.
Is ...
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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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How does ethnic identity contribute to a person's self esteem
The process of ethnic identity development is similar to the process of identity development in general. Often the precipitating event involves an experience during which the individual encounters ...
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What are the possible causes of pettiness?
There is a question about pettiness Is it possible to quantify 'pettiness' in a personality?
Which gives a good example of how some people can focus on seemingly unimportant issues, when ...
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Impact of the first love experience [closed]
When we become adults, we think that love is for adults only associating it with sexual relations but I'm sure that all of us have loved or have had some admiration for the daughter of the ...
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What causes fetishes? Are they sexual disorders?
Why do people have fetishes, such as foot fetishes?
How do such fetishes form?
Are childhood incidents the main cause of fetishes?
Are fetishes a sexual disorder?
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Does initial 0-3 years of age have any effects for a permanent bonding to happen between the parents and their children?
My brother (age: 37) is least attached to our parents. At the time of his birth, our parents had left him with our grandmother. He saw our parents, for the first time, at the age of 3 years. He has ...
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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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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:
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Are Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development supported by empirical evidence?
I've just come across a (very basic) description of Kohlberg's stages of moral development, and I found the section on the Pre-conventional level of moral reasoning rather suprising.
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Descriptions of human behavior should be extensible and reducible. Why?
In Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson explains Timothy Leary's theory of personality types, the "interpersonal grid", the diagrammatic representation of which consists of a circle divided by the ...
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The genetics of handedness
In response to these questions:
Are there benefits to learning to write with your non-dominant hand?
Spontaneous change of handedness
I used myself as an example for spontaneous handedness change.
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Why do we not remember things from the first couple of years of childhood?
As parents of a soon-to-be three-year-old, my wife and I spend a lot of time planning activities and trips for our son. However, my wife wanted to hold off on some of the big ones (i.e. Disney World),...
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What is the most common age for developing psychosis?
Background: Lately I've been watching a lot of Criminal Minds and in the season that I've just finished, one of the main characters - a 20-something Dr. Spencer Reid - is worried that he might be ...
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How to calculate IQ score based on raw score and adjust for age?
I am having a hard time grasping how IQ scores are calculated. I think it has something to do with their age score ratio multiplied by 100.
Say I have a test that holds 30 questions. How would I ...
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Current theories of the psychology of ambivalence
This question querying the authenticity of people's words and actions and the resulting commentary after this answer, has led me to ask this question.
Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous, ...
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Do graphemes relate to communication and thought disorders?
The question Does language and/or culture affect an individual's cognitive capacity? explores the possibility of differences in cognition based on language and cultural variations.
In this question ...
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Classification of Attachment Styles
The concept of attachment and different attachment styles has a long tradition in developmental psychology. Mary Ainsworth developed a classification for three different attachment styles that she ...
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How do our emotions toward a subject affect our brain activity within similar activities?
I'll bring an example: there are people who love to dance and could do it for hours. Yet, if you'd make them run a long distance they would get tired really soon just because they don't like running ...
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What causes behavioural inhibition?
There are obvious consequences that prevent people from behaving anti-socially or criminally. However there are many behaviours that are within the bounds of social norms, yet there seems to be some "...
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What causes some women to have repeated abortions?
Fisher et al. (2005) studied the characteristics of women who have repeated abortions. The study was conducted in countries where reliable contraception and education about birth control are readily ...
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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 ...
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