Questionnaire On Child Behavior Analysis

The purpose of this assignment is to closely observe the development of a child through an interview and apply the theories and concept of child development in his particular cultural and educational context. I selected the child who lives in my neighborhood for the interview and began with seeking the permission from his parents. The child’s name is ‘Abdullah’ and he is seven years old. He lives with his family in Terre Haute and his family consists of parents and two sisters. Abdullah goes to Sugar Grove Elementary School in the Terre Haute city along with his two sisters and he is in grade 2. The interview was conducted at his home and I ensured his convenience. He was cooperative and provided insightful responses to the questions and he provided significant detail in the interview. I was able to track his development stages and connect it to different theories of Developmental Psychology including psychoanalytical perspectives and Piaget’s stages of development. In the following paragraphs, I will explain my observations about Abdullah’s development in the light of developmental theories with special focus on cognitive, social, linguistic, and emotional development followed by making connections between his socioeconomic and cultural background and development. Lastly, I will conclude paper by highlighting that the observations during the interview can facilitate my future practice as a teacher.

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When an infant arrives in the world they are helpless tiny humans who depend on adults for every need from love, to feeding them. It is amazing how these tiny babies grow into adults able to make decisions and become self-dependent. There are many theories about how children develop and what roles the environment plays, what people affect their lives and how events can shape their personalities. Some of these children have and easy life and some have a harder time making that journey to adulthood.

In this class we’ve learned that both Behavior Theory and Cognitive Behavior Theory both help explain human behavior through an A-B-C model or method. What are the A-B-Cs of Cognitive Behavior Theory?

According to the Administration for Children and Families (2010), “Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families” (para. 3). Based on this mission subject, it is possible to subject Head Start to a program evaluation based on the following questions: (a) Is Head Start provisioning educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families? (b) Is the provisioning of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services leading to an enhancement of the social and cognitive development of children? (c) Is the social and cognitive development of children a social good for which taxpayers should pay $7 billion a year? These questions will be addressed, both directly and indirectly, later in this overview.

Thesis: Child Development has four major stages with parent extensive attention can create great learning opportunities

For this assignment, I conducted much research on the Head Start Program. Head Start is a child development program, which provides aid and assistance to financially less fortunate families. It serves children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. Head Start is child centered and focuses much attention on preparing young children from low-income families for school. Head Start helps parents improve their basic literacy, numeric skills and employability skills. It promotes children's developmental growth through early childhood education. The Head Start program holds classes, which instruct parents on how to promote their child's cognitive, social, language, and physical development. This program is of great importance,

Perception of childhood, has many cultural influences. These influences have social and medical routes many questions come to mind when individuals become caregivers and guide a child into toddler hood. Expectations from friends and family encourage patterns of behavior for parenting, for example the connection of the “time out”, this this related to to shame and doubt in a child’s development. Often, overlooked is the topic of discipline and long term factors such a early introduction to daycare, verses homeschooling.

Behavior Psychology Psychology is defined as a science that focuses on the study of and to

Teachers need to observe each child as a individual in his or her environment. Each case is considered in many different ways. The case can be a special need for example. Teacher need to study the situation, some cases can be a behavior problem or some can be mental problems. Parents can serve as a guidance to find the problem. Some times parents can give us clue of what triggers the child to behave or to be that way. Parents and family members can give us valuable information to achieve the goal in helping us achieving the goal of reaching full potential in teaching a child. Parents play a very important role in the education of their child because they know all the history of that child’s life.

Developmental Psychology means more to me than a university subject studied for a specific number of hours per week. It is undoubtedly an influential part of the society and something I am passionate about. I’ve always been fascinated by the human mind, how it works and how it influences our actions and behavior. I want to broaden and deepen my knowledge of what motivates the behaviors of children, how they develop, how they perceive and interpret their environment, how they understand the good from the bad, the factors that can influence a child’s character in the future as well as the present and in the process learn more about the developmental process from birth to adulthood.

This week we will explore applicability of developmental psychology to improve our everyday life. In order to do that I have read chapter 9 and watched TED Talks on developmental psychology by Jane McGonigal and Dan Gilbert. All information that I listed I find very interesting for my self because it is everyday life which is start from prenatal development tile our death. It is all about development such as how we make our decisions every seconds because we are builders of our lifespan. Also, I have watched few lessons by Crash Course Psychology such as language, power motivation, the growth of knowledge, monkeys, morality, adolescence.

First of all I think that in the back of every parents mind are questions concerning

Children from low-income households tend to exhibit higher levels of conduct problems. This quantitative study uses data from the Parental questionnaire and the Behavior Assessment System for Children 2nd Edition to investigate associations between family income in early childhood and children’s conduct problems. The study will explore whether income is associated to child conduct problems and emotional problems operate through income level and parental education levels.

Is behavior learned? It is inborn? What of aggression, intelligence, and madness? There is a crucial relationship between the behavior of humans toward their own kind and the view of life they hold. Interest in behavioral genetics depends on wanting to know why people differ. According to Jack R. Vale, in Genes, Environment, and Behavior, recognition of the importance of hereditary influence on behavior represents one of the most dramatic changes in the social and behavioral sciences during the past two decades. A shift began toward the more balanced contemporary view that recognizes genetic as well as environmental influences on behavior. Behavioral genetics lies in its theory and methods, which consider both genetic and