It is this relationship which is essential for the child's security, and it is breaks in this relationship which Bowlby believes leads to psychological disorder. ... A young child may be separated from one or both caregivers for a variety of reasons, including divorce, death or hospitalisation. When the separation involves the loss of the primary attachment figure and consequent bond disruption, it is called deprivation. Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis states that if the child experiences prolonged periods of separation such as those already stated, then the child will be at...

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A child with any disability needs an equivalent education as well as any other. ... Both are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category called Pervasive Development Disorders or PPD (APA 1994). ... In a class structure, a child with Asperger's should require a different mixture of teaching structures to be sure that there is less stress on the child. ... Do not rush the child into understanding what is expected from them. ... A reward, or a token economy, is another form of reinforcement for that child. ...

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He goes on to mention how a child's years want to be plotted like Cinderella's. ... On Bettelheim, he was a child psychologist and writer during his life. ... This mindset is what is called oedipal guilt "which is the thoughts and regret the child receives in their mind after those thoughts escape the mind." ... Oedipal guilt is not the only way to get past a situation involving a child with their parents. ... To reiterate it, a child does not reach puberty and "sexual thoughts " for a few more years. ...

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The main driving force behind human behaviour was what he called the libido, which is basically defined as sexual energy. ... Freud called this kind of anxiety reality or objective anxiety (Schultz & Schultz, 1994). ... A typically Freudian example of this would be the child, no longer an infant, who desires to suckle at his mother's breast. ... For example, a child who feels anger toward a parent may displace this anger onto a younger sibling or pet by physically inflicting pain on either. ... Gray (1999) mentions another defence mechanism explored by Freud, called rationa...

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For example, in the book Infant and Child, by Judith Rich Harris and Robert M. ... This clearly shows that from the moment a child is born, he or she is already learning from observing. Therefore, as the child grows up and starts watching television, the child can not distinguish between what is reality and what is fantasy. ... It felt fun to imitate these so called heroes because it seemed like the characters in the movies were invincible. ... Furthermore, in a resent incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of her bod...

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For example, in the book Infant and Child, by Judith Rich Harris and Robert M. ... This clearly shows that from the moment a child is born, he or she is already learning from observing. Therefore, as the child grows up and starts watching television, the child can not distinguish between what is reality and what is fantasy. ... It felt fun to imitate these so called heroes because it seemed like the characters in the movies were invincible. ... Furthermore, in a resent incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of her bod...

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Many aspects of the environment can affect a child's temperament. ... "The id consists of instincts toward life represented by constructive sexual energy, called libido, and by aggressive or destructive instincts towards death" (Newcomer, 1993). ... The first, oral is marked by sucking and biting (0-2 years), followed by anal stage (2-3) in which the child is preoccupied with its bowel movements. ... The child's focuses on its sex organs. The next stage is latency (6-12 years of age) where the child loses all interest in sex altogether. ...

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The experimental method is a research method in which one or more variables are manipulated (called the independent variable) in order to see the effects it has on another variable (the dependent variable). ... These sorts of traits will have an effect on how the child perceives itself and how others perceive the child, consequently having an effect on the child's personality. ... These basic needs include physiological needs, which are all of the body's requirements (food, water, safety needs, curiosity, the need for relationships), which is first encountered in the relationship b...

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He calls school a "society in miniature ", preparing us for life in wider society. ... He calls school a "focal socialising agency " and claims that education draws a bridge between family and the wider society. ... Unlike in the household, whereby roles are ascribed and the child is judged by particularistic standards and rules apply only to that particular child. ... They argue that the education system justifies poverty through what they call "poor-are-dumb ". ...

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He called her a devout Christian and a saint. ... He started reading medical dictionaries and female anatomical texts that lead to a first time interest in women since as a child Gein's mother insisted he remain unmarried, and forced in him the belief that women betray and leads families to separation. ... Gein's father was equally ineffective in creating an independent, stable child. ... This stage experienced by children within the ages of 1-3 years is also called the autonomy versus shame and doubt stage (Cook, Joan). In this particular phase the child learn to exercise will, mak...

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Because human beings are so complex and multi-layered, physiologists have theories for just about everything from learning to child development, from memory to mental illness. ... If it is believed that a person's childhood has a major impact on adult life, for example, it might be expected an abused child may have some problems when they grow up. ... He (Darwin) called this natural selection. ... Preconscious, stores data you don't need right now but readily accessible if something calls your attention to it, for example, if someone asks what you had for dinner last night and you...

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The polarization of parents and siblings is very confusing to the mind of a young child. ... Several experiences like these can cause a child to form what is known as an alter. ... She called herself Jane and was polite. ... For example, if you were raped as a child, your alter may be in the form of a prostitute; or if you were assaulted, your alter may be more masculine. ...

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It involves a child's unconscious desire to possess the opposite-sexed parent's attention rather than the same-sexed parent. I can relate to that, because when I was a younger child, I always used to cling to my father more than my mother- but now that I am a teenager, I crave my mother's attention more than my father's. ... The leader in this field was Albert Bandura- he called the process of interacting with our environment reciprocal determinism. ...

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Mitchell, Freud and Beyond) He recognized that each person is born with various natural drives that he called instincts, such as the need to satisfy sexual desires and the need to be aggressive. ... The second part of Freud's theory comes as a child begins to interact more with the world. ... Mitchell, Freud and Beyond) As the child begins to mature, the superego develops. ...

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May I see a show of hands if any of you ever questioned your academic competence as a child? ... I was never nearly praised for my accomplishments as boys were, therefore, even being a very intelligent child, I could never feel good enough about my work; I lacked a lot of confidence and often found myself feeling anxious, distressed and depressed. ... So please, if you suspect any girl in your immediate family or relatives to be experiencing any of the "passive" symptoms I just talked about, consult your doctor and have him/her do evaluations on the child specifically targeting ADHD ...

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What drives both fighters is the notion of an ambiguous set of noble rules called the "Heroic Code." ... Even though these thoughts do not lead him to do otherwise, he still regrets having to leave his wife and child. ... He calls Briseis his "prize." ...

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There are different stages that every child has to go through and at each stage, his or her behaviour, thinking and feeling change over time. ... Marx defines learning as "learning is a relatively enduring change in behaviour which is a function of prior behaviour (usually called practice)." (Chauhan, 1988 .p. 117) Teachers need to learn the basic concepts or theories about learning process that occurs in every child. ...

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He himself calls it as "the one great thing". ... The theory of Reminiscence which is expounded by Plato, says that our soul has seen in a former life all things which it learns in this world, & are learning is a mere remembrance of that life, which flashes to the mind when some fact of an object stares what we may call an association of ideas. ... His approach was psychological, he said these studies should not be forced upon the mind of the child. ...

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Thus, the basic unit of personality is personal dispositions, which he called trait and his personality was utilized the concept of personal dispositions. ... Concept of trait theory The basic assumption of the trait point of view is that people possess broad predisposition, called traits, to respond in particular ways. ... Allport uses concept of functional autonomy to suggest that the motives of an adult may have their roots in the tension-reducing motives of the child, the adults grows out of them and becomes independent of these earlier tension-reduction efforts, therefore, genetic unde...

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Imagine that the sky was actually purple - though you would call it blue because that was the word assigned to the sky. ... Every child born has the mental ability to be a great poet, mathematician, and philosopher - they loose these abilities without proper training and motivation. ...

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Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. Egan states that there are two main obstacles that bar the implementation of imaginative development in ou...

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