Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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Children’s play
Children all around the world like to play. Most of us believe that it is important for children to play and provide them vast variety of toys. Psychologists study children’s play and try to understand the purpose of the play. They classify children’s play in different ways. Pretend play is usually referred to children playing [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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Computer games and child development
Video and computer games are highly controversial issue amongst parents, teachers, and also psychologists. Video and computer games are likely to increase hand-eye coordination that is a valuable skill in life. It was also found that they play important role in peer interaction. Children that do not play video and computer games are likely to [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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Categorization
Look at this picture. Do you know exactly what are those animals? Even if we don’t know the exact name of this species we can gather that they are belong to monkeys because they look like monkeys. People sort things around them into categories. This helps us to structure the world around us. When we [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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Children and computer
Do computers have the potential to change the way children think? Teaching methods are associated and influenced by psychological theories of child development. Although progressive methods of teaching are already partly exercised in the present education system, traditional methods are still in use. Implementation of computers into classroom requires reconsideration of today’s teaching methods. There [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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Influence of genes and environment on child development
Knowledge about genes’ structure and some was in which the operate persuaded psychologists to consider that children must have inherited some of the psychological characteristics from their parents. Some psychologists believed that there were no other factors that influenced development. Others argued that due to high flexibility of mental abilities there must have been other [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Irina Benjamin
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