Childhood Development (Theory)

Paper Code: 
HSC-303
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the student to -

  1. Understand importance of childhood years.
  2. Understand about various development in childhood.
  3. Understand psychology and  its application in child development.
  4. Know various types of early childhood education program.
     
9.00
Unit I: 
  1. Childhood years – meaning, stages, characteristics, significance and development task of various stages of childhood years ( Early , middle and late childhood ), children’s rights.
  2. The course of physical growth – change in body size, proportion, composition.
  3. Motor, cognitive, language, socio- emotional development during various stages of childhood, factors affecting various developments.
  4. Bilingualism, handedness.
  5. Parenting in childhood, disciplinary practices and their influence on personality.
     
9.00
Unit II: 
  1. Individual differences- meaning, types, importance.
  2. Memory- Meaning, process, types, causes of forgetting, factors affecting memory.
  3. Personality- meaning, traits, determinants, types, gender role identity, influences on gender stereotyping and gender role adoption.
     
9.00
Unit III: 
  1. Socialization- Meaning, agencies- family, school and peer group – their importance and significance of socialization.
  2. Learning: Definition, types, learning curve, trial and error, classical conditioning-extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, Operant conditioning- reinforcement, punishment, Cognitive learning- latent, observational, insight learning , laws, factors affecting learning.
9.00
Unit IV: 
  1.  Adjustment- Meaning, conflict, frustration, methods of adjustment, direct coping and mental mechanism
  2. Motivation- Meaning, characteristics, need, drive, incentive, types.
  3. habit formation
     
10.00
Unit V: 
  1. Intelligence- definition, theories, types of intelligence tests, measurement of intelligence- mental age, intelligence quotient, determinants of intelligence.
  2. Behavioral problems in children-Definition, causes and prevention- hurting other children, destructive attitude, using abusive language, thumb  sucking, bedwetting, masturbation, refusal to eat, lying, stealing, running away, pica, truancy.
  3. Behaviour modification therapies
Essential Readings: 

.John W. Santrock, Children, Sixth Edition, Mc Graw Hill

 2. Dworetzky, J. P. (1981). Introduction to child development St. Paul, Minnesota: WestPub. Co.

3. Jangira, N.K.; Ahuja, A.; Kaur, C. & Sibia, A. (1990). Functional assessment guide: A handbook for primary teachers. New Delhi: NCERT.

4. Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko (19 ). Totto-chan: The little girl at the window.

5. Baron,R.A.,Byrne,D.and Kantswitz B.M. Understanding Behaviour,Holt,Rinehart,1980.

6. Pedinnus,G.R. and Johnson. R.C. Child and Adolescent Psychology,John Wiley,1975.

7. Stott,Leland,H.The Psychology of Human Development,MacMillan Co,1978.

8. Berk,Laura E. (Third edition), 1993. Infants,Children and Adolescents.

9. Diane E. Papalia, 2004, Human Development, Ninth Edition, Mc Graw Hill

10. Elizabeth B. Hurlock, Developmental Psychology- A life span Approach, 5th Edition, Mc Graw Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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