Overview
Key facts
Anyone who lives or works with children will gain valuable insights into child behaviour. Students of counselling or pscyhology will be better prepared to understand childhood influences on later adult behaviour.
Aims of the Child Psychology course from Warnborough College
- Identify environmental and social aspects required for the ‘ideal’ environment for a developing child.
- Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child’s personality development.
- Provide evidence that a particular personality characteristic may be genetically determined.
- Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child’s personality development.
- Name the kind of learning in which a stimulus which usually produces an unconditioned response is manipulated to produce a conditioned response, and give an example.
- Discuss exactly how you would use operant conditioning to encourage a child to socialise.
- Use the perceptual recognition approach to explain smiling and fear in infants.
- Evaluate Freud’s, Harlow’s and Bowlby’s explanations of the formation of mother-child attachments different.
- Explain reflection-impulsivity and its significance in cognitive development.
- Explain the strengths and weakness of social learning theory in explaining language acquisition.
- Explain why you think that intelligence is or is not overall genetically determined.
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- The Newborn Infant: The Interactionist approach, range of reaction, niche picking, temperament stimulus seeking, emotional disturbances during pregnancy
- States and Senses of the Infant: Sensory discrimination, infant states (sleep, inactivity, waking, crying etc), why psychologists are concerned with defining and describing infant states, habituation, crying, soothing a distressed baby, sensory discrimination, depth perception, oral sensitivity
- Learning: Habituation, vicarious learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, reinforcement, the importance of learning control, etc
- Emotions and Socialisation: Producing and recognising emotional expression, smiling, biological explanation, perceptual recognition, mother-child Attachment, Freudian approach, Bowlby’s approach, Social Learning approach, Harlow’s approach, role of cognition in attachment formation, day care
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- You can start the course whenever is convenient for you.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Childhood Studies Developmental Psychology View 17 other Short Courses in Childhood Studies in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
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