Psychology Child Development

Question: Discuss about the Psychologyfor Child Development. Answer: Introduction As human beings, curiosity tends to drive us to understand the reasons as to why events happen around us. Hence, when we meet someone doing something we tend to try and understand the motive behind this person doing this. Similarly, we also tend to try and understand our experience and behavior in different situations. Therefore, the eagerness and curiosity tends to guide us on how people are different from each other in regards to their aptitude, temperament and intellectual capacity (Heine, 2015). Trying to investigate why a person is happy or sad, why do persons become friendly and develop antagonistic relationship, and why do some people learn quickly that other is what we call psychology. To an ordinary person the answer to his novice tends to be guided by common sense, but, as a psychologist one tends to study reasons behind those activities in a systematic manner meaning that the results attained are scientific and can be tested from time to time (Lamb, 2004). Before diving deep into the context of psychology which we have learnt. Perhaps, providing some definitions of what psychology is may be vital. According to Brinkmann (2014), he argues that psychology is a science where one studies behavior and mental process of a person. He further argues that behavior includes variety of overt actions which include; social interactions, walking and gestures and emotional reactions which could include frowning of laughing. For mental process, it includes thoughts, ideas and also complex aspects used in reasoning that psychologist use in making inferences about mental process through study of behavior. On the other hand, Ormrod (2014) states that psychology tends to differ from common sense because its a science. Rather than observing, psychologist tend to use systematic observations which tend to yield comprehensive theories and also knowledge. Further analysis by Renninger et al (2014) shows that psychology further extends to the investigation of p roblem behaviors such as violence or even drug abuse. In the early days, philosophers discussed many topics which are studied in modern psychology such as free will, memory and attraction. The emergence of American psychologist William James became the birth of psychology as a discipline. In this early days, psychology was studied using two theoretical perspectives which includes; functionalism and structuralism. Functionalism entailed the change in mind which is constant and therefore it would be pointless to search for building blocks of experience. Hence, the suggestion that psychologist should always look for the underlying cause of behavior as well as the mental process being involved. As for structuralism, it relied on the introspection, which was a research where subjects related to what was going on their minds when performing certain activities. Therefore, the idea of psychologist carrying out investigations on the causes and behavior of objective procedures such as measurement, observation and analysis backed up by theories, i nterpretations, and predictions is what makes psychology a discipline (Moore Dunham, 2014). Psychology as a discipline tends to investigate a wide range of phenomenon which ranges from sensation, perception, emotions, motivations, thinking, personality, social behavior, intelligence, mental illness and even child development. Studies done from our class module tends to suggest that academias were cautious when airing the ethical dilemmas faced when conducting their research work, but in the current are this situation seems to be changing. Hence, this makes research and ethics a key part in psychology because it tends to lowers the ethical concerns that are likely to rise from work (Ormrod, 2014). Ethics and research tends to have the following significance in psychology: Ethics and research in psychology prevents psychologist from deceiving their patients. Hence, psychologist can lie to their patients for their own good. But, deception might fall into many different codes ranging from conducting research. For instance. Ethical codes for a psychologist during research prevents him from violating codes of conduct such as deception of patient. Ethically, psychologist are mandated with certain rules and regulations so as to protect the public or even the clients. The existence of this ethical principles is followed not only to protect the psychologist but the interest of the public, families and the client (Inhelder et al, 2014). The existence of ethical codes and research tends to protect the public and also the psychologist from any harm that may arise from mishandling of a situation. It means that the physical, emotional and financial situation is protected within these codes. Ethics and research tends to regulate the behavior and situation being dealt with. Hence, the codes tend to be put in place such that psychologist services are provides without any breach that may cause physical or emotional harm to those receiving the services. Additionally, through the study of psychology over the few years. I have also been able to understand more on specified psychology schools which are prepared to intervene with individuals and systems. Hence, the systems involved must be effectively developed, implemented and correctly evaluated (Paloutzian Park, 2014). Additionally, as a psychologist if I was preparing to participate is school psychology, it would be vital to at least learn some psychological diagnosis, assessment, intervention, prevention and program development which is vital in the school system. In conclusion, based on the above discussion it has been clear to me that psychology includes evaluation of cognitive assessments, there may be also a look at emotions and behavioral concerns, and measurement of adaptive function. Additionally, as a psychologist you tend to provide different services such as counseling, learning difficulties that people experience, engagement in group programs, parental programming and also consultation services. 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