Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Child Psychology Study
This study is designed to test the hypothesis that environmental enrichment among the impoverished ad underprivileged children can lead to an improvement in their IQ levels. This is why the 20 children who were from the underprivileged sector of the society were picked and subjected to a non-residential school that was less crowded than their previous situations. This is a program that was initiated at the age of 3 and special attention was put on development of social and cognitive skills.
An independent variable in psychology experiment is the characteristic that is changed or manipulated in order to see the effect the manipulation has on the dependent variable (Kendra Cherry, 2011). For instance, in this study, the independent variable is the environment under which the three-year children are subjected to for a period of four days a week until they began infant school. This is the characteristic that was manipulated in the study in order to see if the change in the kind of environment that the children are subjected to can affect in any way the intelligence levels that they display thereafter.
Here, the three-year-olds were taken from an environment that was congested and of lower living standards, to special schools where they had better access to education. In general there was environmental enrichment for the 20 children under study.
A dependent variable is the variable that the researcher is out to measure. It is the character that reflects the influence that the independent variable has had (Saul Mcleod, 2008). For instance in this study, the intelligence level is the dependent variable that is expected to be studied between the children whose environment was changed and those who remained in the initial environment. The researcher will be out to see if the intelligence level of the children whose environment was changed differed significantly from those that remained in the impoverished environment and prove that it is the change in environment that contributed to that difference in intelligence.
References
Kendra Cherry, (2011). What Is the Independent Variable? Retrieved October 8, 2011 from http://psychology.about.com/od/iindex/g/independent-variable.htm
Saul Mcleod, (2008). Independent & Dependent Variable. Retrieved October 8, 2011 from http://www.simplypsychology.org/variables.html
It is clear from the studies thus far examined (plus a few more) that the ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects develops much earlier than Piaget imagined. Second, while it is unclear from this study if the rules of grammar inform the child's sense of animacy or vice versa, we find that children significantly tend to attribute animate characteristics to a sentence's first noun and inanimate qualities
In relationship of his reading comprehension -- Manuel knows how to read at grade level. He really does get the plain indication and can figure out the connotation of a lot of words in the course of context clues. He can effortlessly recapitulate what he has just read and grabbed some of the main ideas as well as extrapolations. His writing needs a lot of work. A lot of
Child Psychology Music and Brain Development The link is recognized by Georgia Head Start program Recently, the Georgia Head start organization began distributing CD's with classical music on them to every newborn child's mother as part of a program designed to aid in the early childhood development of children's intelligence. Some applaud Governor Zell Miller's push to establish this program as a step in the direction of improving the health and well being
Child Abuse This research investigates the connection amongst childhood abuse as well as neglect and sexual risk conduct in middle adult years and whether psychosocial aspects (risky romances, affective signs and symptoms, alcohol and drug use, along with delinquent as well as illegal conduct) mediate this connection (Wilson and Widom, 2011). I was attracted to this article because it offered definitive proof about how child abuse and neglect can cause HIV
Children: Exposure to Violence Through the Media The extent to which exposure to violence creates violent children and/or aggressive behavior is a subject which has been debated in a comprehensive manner. However, the fundamental research findings are consistent. The research continues to demonstrate that exposure to violence creates negative manifestations in the behavior of children. "While violence is not new to the human race, it is an increasing problem in modern
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, parent or sibling may often be overwhelming. For adolescents, the death of person close to them may prove much more traumatic as it can disrupt adolescent development. Diana Mahoney (2008), with the