Child & Adolescent Psychology
Essay
Answer ONE of the following questions.
Question1
Discuss how care and attachment influences the development of emotion in children and how this in turn influences their behavioural motivation. In your answer ensure you discuss the role of dependency in the formation of attachment.
Question 2
Discuss how early experiences of adversity and deprivation can impact the growth and development of a child. Pay particular attention to how the different domains of development influence each other and therefore impact emotional development.
Question 3
Discuss how undue aggression and unresolved oppositional behaviour can influence emotional development during childhood and adolescence. In your answer consider the role of temperament, gender, family, peers, society and resilience.
Question 4
Discuss the development of a sense of self and how it is influenced by social relationships. In your answer ensure you discuss the development of a Theory of Mind and link self-awareness to emotional development.
Essays should be written in a word document, using 12 point font, with 1.5 spacing. Each page should be numbered
• Prescribed texts are:
Berk, L.E (2013). Child Development. 9th Ed. Pearson.Sydney.
Wilson, R.L. & Wilson, R. (2015). Understanding emotional development: Providing insight into human lives (3 ed.). Abingdon: Routledge