Jane ElliotBlue Eyes, Brown Eyes Jane Elliot was a well liked third grade teacher from a small rural town in Iowa. In 1968 after the brutal assassination of Martin Luther King, the whole nation was in turmoil. Jane, also feeling the disparity and frustration knew that something needed to be done about racial discrimination. She […]
Intelligence Of A Last Born Child
Despite the vast amount of evidence found to support the idea that birth order can affect a child’s personality and education, it is still undetermined whether or not Birth Order does, in fact, have an effect on a person’s intelligence. There have been positive links between birth order and intelligence found in various studies, along […]
Influence of Age on Self-Description Changes
Gemma L Sobah An investigation of self-descriptions in data collected from two children of different ages, and how their age influences the focal point of their self-descriptions using the findings of Rosenberg (1979) Abstract (166 words) This report investigates the self-descriptions of two children in using the findings of Morris Rosenberg (1979). Rosenberg proposed that […]
Impacts of Mothers’ Support for SEN Children
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Becoming a mother is a wonderful, exhilarating experience. Raising children brings new meaning to every moment of your life and depth to your experience as a human being. Equally to become parents and to nurture a newborn baby is a great responsibility. “As parents, we develop hopes and dreams about who our […]
How bilingualism can effect cognitive functions
The aim of this essay is to introduce some issues about bilingualism. We will try to examine some areas of bilingualism, concerning cognitive aspects. People use the term “bilingualism” in different ways. For some, it means an equal ability to communicate in two languages. For others, it simply means the ability to communicate in two […]
Ethical Interpretation of Unethical Studies
Mini Research Proposal: Ethical Interpretation of Unethical Studies Milgram’s obedience study is unethical for a few reasons, and one of them is the deception of the respondents about the nature of the research (McLeod, 2007). As such, the respondents were informed that the study would deal with the learning in general, focusing on the respondent […]
Effects of Television on Child Development
Effects of Television Shallene K Green Society looks at the effects of watching television, which raises the question- Does television harm children from an early age? Dr. John Grohol, Psy.D., an author, researcher and expert in mental health believes through research that television has a harmful effect on the development of children. He claims that […]
Effect of Age on Self-Descriptions and Characteristics
A small scale study involving two children aged 8 and 16 to recognise aspects of Rosenberg’s findings on how a child’s self-descriptions and characteristics change with age. Abstract This study examines the theory of Rosenberg (1989) that the characteristics of a child’s self-description changes with age. Namely, the researcher investigates how a child describes themselves […]
Cyber Bullying Is Growing Rapidly Psychology Essay
Although bullying has been around for centuries, it has only been in the past twenty years that researchers have tried systematically to measure bullying (Kowalski, Limber, & Agatston, 2008). In 2001, the first study of bullying in the United States was conducted with more than 15,000 students in grades 6 through 10 (Kowalski, Limber, & […]
Current Studies Of Obedience Psychology Essay
Stanley Milgram has conducted several studies in the 1960s and 1970s in which he tested the obedience of people. His results created controversy among people at the time, but the question is still open. Current experiments have tried to replicate Milgram’s results but they have encountered several ethical problems. One famous study conducted by Jerry […]