Child Psychology Online Course
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| Full Fee | $595.00 incl GST - Best Value! |
| Payment Plan | $800.00 incl GST |
Exam Optional
Tutor Support Yes unlimited by email
Qualification Certificate
Anyone who works with or is involved with children requires an understanding of Child Psychology.
This child psychology course is recommended for: Parents; Child Care Workers; Teachers and people who work in childrens services; Toy manufacturers, play leaders, or anyone else with an interest in how children behave.
Learn how children develop psychologically as they grow, and what factors (such as learning, parenting styles, reinforcement, and genetic makeup) influence their behaviour and thinking. Anyone who lives or works with children will gain valuable insights into child behaviour. Students of counselling or psychology will be better prepared to understand childhood influences on later adult behaviour.
Course Aims:
- Identify environmental and social aspects required for the ideal environment for a developing child.
- Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child’s personality development.
- Provide evidence that a particular personality characteristic may be genetically determined.
- Explain how genetic and environmental factors operate together in influencing the child’s personality development.
- Identify the type of learning in which a stimulus which usually produces an unconditioned response is manipulated to produce a conditioned response, and give an example.
- Discuss exactly how you would use operant conditioning to encourage a child to socialise.
- Apply the perceptual recognition approach to explain smiling and fear in infants.
- Evaluate Freud’s, Harlow’s and Bowlby’s explanations of the formation of mother-child attachments different.
- Explain reflection-impulsivity and its significance in cognitive development.
- Explain the strengths and weakness of social learning theory in explaining language acquisition.
- Explain why you think that intelligence is or is not overall genetically determined.
Detailed Course Outline
This course is made up of a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.
There are 12 Lessons in this course:
Introduction to Child Psychology
- Levels of development.
- Nature or nurture.
- Isolating hereditary characteristics.
- Cause versus correlation.
- Continuity versus discontinuity.
- Cross sectional and longitudinal studies.
- Reliability of verbal reports.
The Newborn Infant
- The Interactionist Approach.
- Range of Reaction.
- Niche Picking.
- Temperament Stimulus seeking.
- Emotional Disturbances During Pregnancy.
States and Senses of the Infant
- Sensory Discrimination.
- Infant States (sleep, inactivity, waking, crying etc.).
- Why are Psychologists so concerned with defining and describing infant states?
- Habituation.
- Crying.
- Soothing a Distressed Baby.
- Sound Discrimination.
- Smell and Taste Discrimination.
- Visual Discrimination.
- Depth Perception.
- Oral Sensitivity.
Learning
- Habituation.
- Vicarious Learning.
- Classical Conditioning.
- Operant Conditioning.
- Reinforcement.
- The Importance of Learning Control, etc.
Emotions and Socialization
- Producing and Recognising Emotional Expression.
- Smiling, Biological Explanation.
- Perceptual Recognition Explanation.
- The Mother-Child Attachment.
- Freudian Approach Bowlby’s Approach.
- Social Learning Approach.
- Harlow’s Approach.
- The Role of Cognition in Attachment Formation.
- Maternal Attachment.
- Fear, Social Learning.
- Perceptual Recognition.
- Women’s Dual Role as Mothers and Workers, day care.
Cognitive Development
- Developing the Ability to Reason.
Language Development
- Is language learned, or are we genetically programmed with it?
- The Social Learning Approach.
- The Hypothesis Testing Approach.
- Under Extending.
Intelligence
- Measuring Intelligence.
- Cultural Bias.
- IQ.
- Testing Intelligence as a tool.
Socialisation Part 1
- Social Cognition – self awareness, awareness of others as individuals in their own right, the development of empathy, taking turns, having a point of view/perspective, ability to see something from another person’s perspective.
- Friendships.
- Social Scripts, Scripts that Pretend Play.
Morality
- Moral development.
- Aggression & Altruism.
- Freud’s Approach.
- Piaget’s Approach.
- Kohlberg’s Approach.
Sexuality
- Freud’s phases (oral phase, anal phase, phallic phase, latent phase, genital phase).
- The Acquisition of Gender and Role Identity.
- Concept of Psycho-Social Development.
Socialisation Part 2
- The Family Influence.
- Discipline.
- Siblings.
- Family Structures.
- School Influence.
- Peer Influence.
- Acceptance and Rejection.
- Imitation and Reinforcement
When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It's okay if you don't want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.
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Course Tutor
Dr Nicholas Harris B. Psychology (Hons I), PhD
Nicholas is a social psychologist; he studies and teaches on topics involving group-level and individual-level behavior, as well as examining the effect of the situation. Nicholas has been involved in writing textbooks and research papers in psychology. Nicholas’ teaching experience is vast; he has taught social psychology, indigenous and intercultural psychology, statistics, research methods, psychological measurement and assessment, personality, organizational psychology, counselling skills, and ethics. Nicholas has also completed a number of short courses on counselling and suicide prevention, and has volunteered for a number of years with Lifeline. Nicholas has supervised a number of honours and master’s research theses.
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3. Receive Certificate
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I pay in installments?
Yes! We offer great payment plans, however full payment up front is the cheapest. You can choose the best payment plan for you from the course page, or call us on 07 55368782 to talk to one of our course consultants for a custom plan.
Can I study from anywhere in the world?
We have many international students. Careerline's range of courses are suitable for any one, anywhere in the world.
Do I get a discount if I enroll in a second course?
Yes. You may claim a 5% fee discount when you enroll in a second course, and a further 10% off a three-course package.
Do I have to sit an Exam?
No. If you are enrolled in a Certificate course (100hrs), the exam is optional. You will be issued with a certificate which proves that you are competent in all units, if you choose not to sit the exam.
Do you have set start dates?
There are no set start dates, you may start at any time. Our courses are all self-paced. As our home page says, ‘Courses for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime’. ‘Anytime’ includes the start time of your choice. However, we do encourage our students to submit assignments on a regular basis. Wherever possible, we suggest developing a study routine.