Children's Unattachment Disorders
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16 pages in length. The bonding that takes place between parent and infant is not only a natural occurrence but also a highly critical and consequential stage in the development of that child's entire personality. That infants are products of their immediate environment speaks to the importance of positive reinforcement and parenting skills that provide the kind of emotional guidance so crucial to the child's mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a civilized society, which ultimately brand him an outcast who displays uncontrollable antisocial behavior. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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Children: To Spank Or Not To Spank
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3 pages in length. Disciplining children has become more and more challenging with the ever-growing perception that spanking is both abusive and unnecessary. Each side of this hotly debated topic maintains reasons why it is either beneficial or detrimental to use spanking as a means of appropriate discipline, citing such aspects as later life psychological issues (critics) and failing to realize the value of a few open-handed swats across the behind (proponents). The extent to which the decision to spank a child has become central to much dispute is both grand and far-reaching; that disciplining children in the twenty-first century must now realize the potential for law enforcement involvement speaks to a forward-moving trend that questions the validity of a long-standing method for correcting misbehavior. When compared with such non-impact punishment alternatives as time-out, spanking has steadily become a least favored approach. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Cognitive Development During Childhood: Language Development and Gendered Interpretations
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This 11 page paper provides an overview of the connection between cognitive development and language development. Further, this paper also relates the issue of gendered interpretations as they apply to an understanding of language development. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Cognitive Development In Africa
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A 6 page paper. The writer offers different types of information including how certain African tribes view intelligence and what is most important. The essay reports studies in two regions that demonstrated giving children certain dietary supplements improved certain cognitive functioning. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Cognitive Psychology and Views of Nature and Madness
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of some of the basic elements of cognitive psychology, including Erikson's theories. This paper integrates a view of cognitive psychology that can be used in an understanding of nature and madness. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Communication Training in Children with Autism
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5 pages. Autism in a child can many times be helped through communication training, using social stories and discrete trial training. In this paper all three methods are discussed as to the current trends in research and communication with children with autism. Outline is included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Communication: The Interrelationship of Mode and Situation
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An 8 page discussion of the interrelationship of mode and situation in conversation. Uses examples from politics and the workplace to demonstrate that the mode of communication can vary considerably according to the situation. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Comparing the “Oedipus Complex” with the “Electra Complex”
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This 6 page report discusses the idea that a child is fascinated, obsessed even, with the parent of the opposite sex has served as a literary and psychological debate since, literally, ancient times. Freud saw this as a universal part of childhood development, which in most children is resolved during late childhood. For Freud, the beginnings of the Oedipus complex are the same for males and females. They love their mother because she satisfies their needs, and they hate their father because he competes for the mother's attention and love. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Comparing Two Books on Children
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An 8 page comparison of Kathleen Berger's The Developing Person Through the Life Span and Marjorie Taylor's Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. These two very different books each address the way that human personality develops. Berger takes a wide perspective that encompasses the way human beings develop over the course of a lifetime. Taylor's book, on the other hand, has a narrow focus on one particular aspect of childhood development, i.e. the way children use fantasy and create imaginary companions. While these books are, of course, very different due to these differences in perspective, they also have similarities in content, which make them complementary in many respects. No additional sources cited.
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