Developmental Psychology Puns

Hey y’all. I’m taking developmental psychology across the lifespan this spring semester. Does anyone by any chance have a copy of the textbook “Development Across the Life Span, 9th edition” by Robert S. Feldman?

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Justin L. Barrett is an American experimental psychologist. He formerly was the Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development in Pasadena, California, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. He previously was a senior researcher and director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Summary:

1. Psychological and developmental experiments found that believing in God is natural and instinctual to children as much as talking and walking.

2. Contrary to the previous beliefs, experiments found that children had immense ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality, to them, God is a necessary reality, while a tooth fairy or a magic pony was a fantasy, even at younger ages.

3. Despite not being told or informed about God ever, children were able to believe in God, describe him as being immensely powerful, immensely knowledgeable, and immensely good, and attributing good morality to him, pointing out that he is the designer or "creator" of this world and everything. This surprising finding was consistent in the psychological and developmental experiments even when children are born to atheist parents who never speak about God, and even when born in the most atheist and secular communities where schools don't teach religion.

4. The hypothesis of Indoctrination (children growing up religious due to parental or systematic education about God and religion) was found consistently incorrect. Experiments show that it is extremely difficult to make children believe in what they don't find rational and that coercion to believe will only lead the children to pretend to believe in something, and not actually convince them about it. All of this shows again that children develop believing in God naturally and instinctually, not through indoctrination.

5. Some studies even found that children to atheist parents tried to negotiate and rationalize believing in God with their parents, by trying to appease them to allow them to believe in God.

6. Doctor Barrett points out that based on these findings through his own resear

studying developmental psychology.

So a couple key thought patterns teens deal with:

• Rumination- thinking the same thoughts over and over, it’s very intrusive, often about imaginary events or a singular thing that happened, can cause paranoia. Kinda like being in a thought loop

• Imaginary audience- being convinced everyone is always watching them

• Lack of prefrontal cortex development = terrible impulse control and bad decision making

• Limbic system is raging due to hormones = seeking intense pleasure and reward (masturbafion, food, shopping etc)

These are all things I struggled with while smoking all day everyday. I hear a lot of you struggling with similar things.

Anyways I thought it was fascinating. Here’s to moving on to our adult brains and having impulse control 👍🏼👍🏼

Edit to add: the brain CAN heal! Eat healthy, exercise, don’t drink or smoke, get a good water filter. We CAN get through this ❤️

Hello! I'm planning on doing Dev Psych next sem, but a lot of the StudentVIP reviews said something about doing short essays IN the exam, and I'm really worried about that. Can anybody share their experience of the subject esp. doing it online? Do we really have to write short essays in the exam? and are the short essay qs released ahead of time? Is it feasible to do well in the exam even with having to write a lot of short answer things?

Any advice/insight would be appreicated!

I applied about a week ago. Are there any students here who are currently in this program? What has been your experience with the administration, staff, program requirements, etc?

If so, what other Base A psychology courses should a freshman like me consider?

Hey guys! I am a science jaffy planning to major in Human Structure and Function, and I have seen that I need to complete some prerequisites, particularly for the physiology subject in third year. One of the options is Research-Based Physiology (PHYS20009), and the other is Developmental Psychology (PSYC20008).

However, I have heard quite a few horror stories about Research-Based Physiology, and I am currently doing MBB2, so psychology could also be an option for me - but I am worried about the harsh marking of psych essays, which Development Psych is completely based on.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thank you!

I’m currently in year 13 studying Psychology and I’m at the point of considering unis. I’ve known that I want to Psychology for a while it’s now up to deciding where. That’s when I came across Royal Holloway and their Developmental Psychology course and I’ve fallen in loveee. I’m reading over their description and honestly I’m just waiting for the catch. So I thought I’d turn to Reddit and ask for real opinions. Anyone have a catch to this course /Royal Holloway generally??

So I talked to my advisor today about possibly graduating one quarter earlier (which could save me a lot of money). Basically, if I change my degree from BS Developmental psyc to BA psychology, I'd be done with all my requirements by Winter. For psyc majors and alumni, which degree opens up more doors? Does it make a big difference? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys. Long time lurker,first time poster. I am currently taking a mandatory Developmental Psychology class and am required to write an essay for my final grade. We were given a short list of topics, few of which caught my interest,except for one. "How does family dynamic influence the development of personality?".

My question is really how do I go about this topic? I have done a quick google scholar search and some scouring through my textbook but few studies link family dynamics and personality specifically. My textbook only ever mentions temperament, and online literature seems to be more preoccupied with the relationship between temperament and personality. I was thinking about narrowing it down to dysfunctional family relationships and their effects on personality and mental health, maybe linking parenting style and early childhood trauma such as abuse with the development of personality disorders in adulthood. Am I way out of my depth here ? 😅 Would anyone be kind enough to share how they would go about this essay question ? :)

Hi! I am from CMC but I'm planning to take these electives. What are your thoughts? Do you think I will have a hard time taking this classes, especially the online learning setup? Do you have any Prof recommendations? And what are your experiences with them?

I hope you'll get your desired classes 😊.

What are the odds of such a young dev team just up and deciding one day to bail and go do something else? If things keep going poorly, what's the likelihood of that? Like they just wonder off

We are seeking participants to complete an anonymous online survey investigating the factors that contribute to flourishing and floundering in emerging adults (i.e., people aged 18-29 years). This survey will take between 20-30 minutes and will form the basis of several Honours’ theses for students at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

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So, there is this older woman and man in my developmental psychology college course at the moment and originally I didn't bat an eyelash at their existence until we had a group discussion together yesterday. So the night before we were instructed to read an research-based article (not one with a abstract but more so informational) on how to properly support and develop your baby, and just like every english language literature class had taught you in Elementary to Highschool, the main idea and it's supporting sentence is in the beginning paragraphs.

In this beginning paragraph it directly states and I quote, "Babies learn to become independent as we confirm and meet their dependency needs in infancy."

This article had touched up on the importance of physical touch and emotionally connection including having a gentle tempo when parenting.

Okay, so we were asked "Can you spoil an infant" in our discussion groups and were sent away to discuss it. Of course, old geezer #1 and #2 that have had kids immediately say yes you can and that babies need to cry it out sometimes and that you can spoil them by being too receptive to them and that it hinders independency. (This is why America has the highest rates of Shaken Baby Syndrome and babies who cry incessantly for long periods of time, mothers in other countries do not have this issue as they usually hold onto their infants much longer and have children who cry even less and don't have these problems.) To which I asked the older woman and I was like, alright, did you read the article?

She said yes, then I asked, how did you miss the sentence that states babies develop independency when you meet their needs.

Then the older man mentions how, when he met his wife, his step son was 13 and still co-sleeping with her and then when he came into the picture, he kicked him out. You're a grown man and your intimdated by a loving parent-child relationship between a mother and son that you kicked him out of the bed he was sharing with his mom because she was a single parent at the time. Wow, way to go make that child incessantly hate your guts.

Keep in mind, these were both the people that said they were taking this class to figure out whats wrong with their kids. I don't know, why are you taking a class that reaffirms you're a terrible parent and your kids deserve better ones.

Like I WISH people were forced to pass a state exam that allowed them to be a parent and if they failed it then they could not reproduce

Curious about this because I heard that like Erickson and Piaget are basically obsolete in the current day

Regression. The backward movement of libido to an earlier mode of adaptation, often accompanied by infantile fantasies and wishes. (See also depression; compare progression.)

Regression … as an adaptation to the conditions of the inner world, springs from the vital need to satisfy the demands of individuation. [“On Psychic Energy,” ibid., par. 75.]

What robs Nature of its glamour, and life of its joy, is the habit of looking back for something that used to be outside, instead of looking inside, into the depths of the depressive state. This looking back leads to regression and is the first step along that path. Regression is also an involuntary introversion in so far as the past is an object of memory and therefore a psychic content, an endopsychic factor. It is a relapse into the past caused by a depression in the present. [“The Sacrifice,” CW 5, par. 625.]

Jung believed that the blockage of the forward movement of energy is due to the inability of the dominant conscious attitude to adapt to changing circumstances. However, the unconscious contents thereby activated contain the seeds of a new progression. For instance, the opposite or inferior function is waiting in the wings, potentially capable of modifying the inadequate conscious attitude.

If thinking fails as the adapted function, because it is dealing with a situation to which one can adapt only by feeling, then the unconscious material activated by regression will contain the missing feeling function, although still in embryonic form, archaic and undeveloped. Similarly, in the opposite type, regression would activate a thinking function that would effectively compensate the inadequate feeling. [“On Psychic Energy,” CW 8, par. 65.]

The regression of energy confronts us with the problem of our own psychology. From the final point of view, therefore, regression is as necessary in the developmental process as is progression.

Regarded causally, regression is determined, say, by a “mother fixation.” But from the final standpoint the libido regresses to the imago of the mother in order to find there the memory associations by means of which further development can take place, for instance from a sexual system into an intellectual or spiritual system.

The first explanation exhausts itself in stressing the importance of the cause and completely overlooks the final significance of the regressive process. From this angle the whole edifice of civilization becomes a mere substitute for the impossibility

Apply it Paper: It’s All Relative

It is reported that about 20 percent of 1-year old children will have an avoidant attachment style with their caregiver. Mary Ainsworth's research, which was inspired by Bowlby’s theory of attachment, found that children present four different types of attachment styles: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized-disoriented (Feldman, Stephen Hupp, & Jewell, n.d. 190). According to Ainsworth, children that express a “positive and trusting relationship with their caregivers” have a secure attachment. Children that act “detached” or uninterested in the presence of their caregivers have an avoidant attachment. Children that are highly anxious when their caregiver is away but are unhappy upon their return, have an ambivalent attachment. Lastly, children that have a disorganized-disoriented attachment may show a plethora of emotions in the absence and presence of their caregivers. Consequently, the attachment style children have with their caregivers will affect and dictate the types of relationships they will have in adulthood (Feldman, Stephen Hupp, & Jewell, n.d. 471).

Moreover, when I was two years old my parents got divorced. I and my sister primarily lived with our mother and would see our father every other weekend, if he was not working. Because of this dynamic, I and my sister were raised in an environment with an overworked mother and an absentee father. According to my mother, I handled the separation between our parents better than my sister did. While going through grade school and high school my sister tended to get into trouble and I took care of her. For example, When I was in 7th grade and my sister was in 9th grade, she was supposed to meet me at school so we could walk home together. One day she showed up heavily intoxicated, I remember going into “drill sergeant mode” and I just focused on getting her home. During all of this, I did not like to show when I was mad or unhappy about anything. I believe I associated negative feelings as a nuisance because my sister was always an outwardly emotional person. If I was mad about anything, I would usually say something sarcastic or tell myself to just get over it. If I was sad or vulnerable, I would make a joke. When I was 16 my sister attempted suicide. She was later diagnosed with bipolar/depression disorder. I honestly do not recall having any kind of emotional response when this happened. For the most part, I would either feel numb or I wo