Making Sense of....Child Psychology

What's it about?

Child psychology helps us to understand more about how and why children behave in the ways they do. Child psychology looks at theories and research about children's learning and development.

Course Overview

* What psychology is
* How children learn right from wrong
* How a child's personality develops
* Born clever? - how children learn, understand and think
* How children learn to fit in with others
* How children make sense of the world around them
* How and when children learn language
* Helping children to cope with their emotions and feelings

What do I get out of it?

The learning outcomes for this course are to understand....

* What psychology is
* Emotions - what they are and how to help children deal with their emotions
* Theories about the nature of social development
* Theories about cognitive development
* The difficulties in defining and measuring intelligence
* Theories about how language develops
* Theories about how a child's personality develops
* Theories about how children learn what's right and wrong
* Theories about how children develop an understanding of gender