A useful link for psychology

http://allpsych.com/psychology101/ego.html

More on ideas for observation

http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/devsequence.shtml

Physical and social development

http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/devsequence.shtml

Instructions for observations for 2nd pol Child

To hand in your observation

Choose the area and plan the activities. 

You should choose activities which will show over a period of four months the changes and development of your child. They can also be compared over what you watched last year. 

Check in the blog the entry on developmental milestones. Check the age of the child get ideas and carry them out. Suppose you are on the 2 year old and you are observing social skills , you can have a look at the type of play or his being less egocentric. 

suppose you are observing a four year olds intellectual development, in this page it talks about language skills. add to this everything we have done about intellectual development. 

hand in observation with good planning, otherwise it will be incomplete. 

Any doubts ask or e mail for further instructions. 

Childhood time line

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/timeline/timeline.shtml

children´s books











Have a look and see what you can discover.
here are some type of books. can you find any others?




keep your brain young

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6979949.stm

Haney, banks and zimbardo St mark´s 3rd pol


Zimbardocomprehension exercise


1. How many participants were used?



2. How did Zimbardo obtain them?




3. How were the participants assigned to the role of prisoner or guard?



4. What were the guards told they must do?



5. Describe two parts of the guards’ uniform?



6. What initially took ten minutes and towards the end of the study lasted several hours?



7. How long did the study last?


8. How long was it planned to last


9. Give one criticism of the study



10. What was the aim of the study?



11. Describe two parts of the prisoners’ uniform.



12. Who played the part of the prison Warden

Brain map

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/organs/brainmap/index.shtml

Hope brain tutorial


Questions to answer as you browse through the tutorial

What functions would you attribute to the brain?

What does the CNS do?

which are the functions of the glial cells?

How is the brain protected?

What is the cerebrospinal fluid?

What is the cerebral cortex?

Which are the functions of the two hemispheres?

What is the corpus callosum? Remember you will hear about this part in the study by Sperry.

Name the lobes and each of the functions.

Why is the limbic system associated with psychology and behaviour?

Which are the functions of the cerebellum?

What is the brain stem?

Build the brain as suggeste in the tutorial and draw it in your folder. 

Reflexes can you name and explain them. ?







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