Essays on Child Psychology

Nature is your genes and what you inherited from your parents that influence who we are consisting of our physical appearance and characteristics. For example, I am short in height from my mother. As for nurture, it is based on all the environmental experiences that…

Introduction Single parents is a person who live with a child and who do not have a wife or husband. Single parent may have only one custody of the child or joint custodians which the child lives alternatively with each parent. This is so because…

Introduction Single parenting has nowadays become one of the most controversial topics among many communities. Common in the past few decades, single parenting can be caused by a number of factors, and these factors can either be voluntary or involuntary. Involuntarily, single parenting, can be…

Single parenting or single parenthood is a parent bringing up a child or children alone without a partner. The reasons for this can vary. They may have been in a relationship which they left, or their partner might have passed away, or been summoned to…

Getting a Trauma in the Childhood Children are in a time in their life where their brains are developing (Pettit and Sykes). Having to go through that at a small age scar you; this can develop into psychological issues because when a person is small…

This reaction paper will cover readings from Chapter Five in our textbook titled, “Children Affected by War and Conflict.” It will also include points made from an article in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine. Children are susceptible to physical or emotional attack or…

Puberty is a important time in every Adolescences life that is the transitional stage between child and adulthood. The forces of puberty are unleashed by a cascade of hormones that produce external growth and internal changes, including heightened emotions and sexual desires (Stassen, 2016). The…

The Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) partnered with Kaiser Permanente in 1995 to 1997, to conduct the original Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic events that can have negative effects on health and well-being as a person mature. Kaiser Permanente…

Bobby, a third grader, warily walks past the crowded hallways of his new school. As he walk, suddenly, the nightmare happens again. The familiar jolt sends him falling backwards and he has no control of the incoming jerks in his body. As he hears the…

Child psychology focuses on the growth of children encompassing their physical, mental, social, and emotional development. It is one of the crucial branches of psychology and, what is more, it is the most challenging one. Since time immemorial, people had always thought that children are…

Part 1: Children’s moral development: comparing video material with the Reader chapter Within the video clip ‘video on moral development’, they discuss how experiments have been conducted on chimpanzees to compare their behaviour with the behaviour of children. Within the video clip it shows an…

Tony Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is a Pulitzer Prize winning work that deals with the American Civil War. It chronicles the fictional story of an escaped African American slaveSethe who is forced to kill her daughter in order to prevent her daughter from ending like her, chained…

Introduction Father engagement entails a father-child relationship that allows for the father to be involved in the activities of the child both socially and academically. For this paper, father engagement will be analyzed in the academic realm and the impact it has on the child’s…

Chosen Article: Imitation of Film Mediated Aggressive Models Topic Background/Introduction: This study looks at the effects of modeled behavior, in this case, aggression, on children’s expression of aggression and frustration. For this specific paper the modeled behavior is aggression as shown in movies and cartoons,…

Each year millions are spent by the advertising industry on marketing, advertising and market research targeted toward children and teens. Advertising is not a new industry or concept, its been around since ancient Rome, archaeologists discovered signs from the Roman times advertising property and land…