Essays on Developmental Psychology

Science and psychology dominate how we approach children’s development, care and education as well as our general understanding of childhood. In this essay I will discuss how science and psychology have affected our views of childhood and explain the relationship between these understandings. Not only...

Domestic violence occurs in many families and it may lead children to have problems through their developments. Domestic violence which also triggers domestic stress that may affect the development of child psychology can be referred to as a relationship problem in which partners seek power...

Freud said that from ages of 3 to 6 years old children have a so-called “Phalic phase”. In both sexes, sensitivity now becomes focused on the genitals and masturbation, and it becomes a new source of pleasure. In boys, the Oedipus complex and in girls...

The Psychodynamic approach was founded by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. He described humans as having unconscious thoughts and desires and that the human psyche is split in three the Id which is our unconscious and impulsive desires it remains unaffected by reality; its pleasure seeking...

Freud’s perspective on sexuality unlike other approaches focuses on the sexual orientation of the child. He distinguished a child sucking a mother’s breast as the first form of infantile eroctical. The Oedipus complex contributes immensely to Freud’s argument about sexuality. It suggests that the child...

In October 2009, Russell Williams being a 46 year old decorated colonel air force pilot and commanding officer of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Trenton, Ontario. Williams being apart of the largest air forces base in Canada, he was known as “shining bright star,”...

The Freudian Psychology, named this due to the vast amount of work put in by Sigmund Freud. He theorised that an individual’s behaviour was made more form psychological factors than biological ones or environmental factors. He argued that individuals are born with these basic needs...

The process of parenting can be divided into different parenting styles. They usually were used in psychology these days and are based totally on the work of Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, in the 1960s. Maccoby and Martin also...

In this essay, I am going to decipher if psychoanalytical thought can aid theological thought in wishing to offer an answer to human suffering and help followers of Christianity escape a life of hopelessness. I will assess if Freud’s clinical psychoanalysis could save humans from...

The article, Femininity, was written by Sigmund Freud and was published in 1933. In this article, Freud mentions his ideas about women’s sexual based problems, women wish to have a penis and them feeling deficient to not having a penis, the relation of those problems...

Cognitive development, socio-emotional adjustment, behavioral adaptation and health status can all be influenced by family and other social factors. Understanding this and basic psychological needs plays a big part to the clinical child psychology world. Child psychology covers a wide variety of different factors that...

A worldview is a foundation where we view reality and make sense of life and the world, it also gives us confidence and hope for the future. For example, I believe God made us and I believe we are God’s children, one of my best-loved...

Child psychology deals with how children grow not only physically but encompasses their mental, emotional, and social development. Historically, children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults however Jean Piaget suggested that children actually think differently than adults. There is several school of thoughts as to...

Psychologists take different approaches when attempting to understand human behavior. For instance, psychologists taking the biological approach assume that differences in behavior can be understood in terms of genes, brain structure, and hormones, which can predispose a person to particular health conditions. The biological approach...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and philosopher and a founder of the field of cognitive science. He has a nature theory that children are prewired for the development of language, and the environment in which they live triggers its emergence. According to Chomsky children...

“Master of Suspense”, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock is one of the British directors and producers in the world. He was raised by his rigorous and religious Catholic parents, Emma Jane and William Hitchcock, who believed by the punishment from God. Moreover, in Alfred Hitchcock’s childhood, he...

Genie was strapped to a potty chair and neglected by her father. Her father kept her and her mother in a ‘protective custody’ where they were ‘virtual prisoners’ to his gross interpretation of a habitable and nurturing environment. Consequently, Genie grew up, neglected and socially...

Dysfunctional families to this day have a vast impact on shaping individuals’ identities. Family issues had a high impact on suicide rates in 2019. With attempts being significantly higher as the years go on. In 2018 alone “there were 3,046 deaths by suicide with an...

Introduction to Personal Development Plan Personal Development Plan (PDP) refers to activities that improve self-knowledge and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. The concept is not limited...