CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

•       Childhood years – meaning, stages, characteristics, significance and development task of various stages of childhood years ( Early , middle and late childhood ), Children’s rights.
•       The course of physical growth – change in body size, proportion, composition.
•        Motor, cognitive, language, socio- emotional development during various stages of childhood, factors affecting various development.

Cognitive, language, socio- emotional development during various stages of childhood factors affecting various development.

• Multilingualism, handedness.
• Parenting in childhood, disciplinary practices and their influence on personality.

•         Emotions- nature, bodily changes in emotions, development  and importance of emotional self – regulation, emotional sensitivity.
•        Memory- Meaning, process, types, causes of forgetting, factors affecting memory                                                                                    
•        Personality- meaning, traits, determinants, types,

•         Socialization- Meaning, agencies- family, school and peer group – their importance and significance of socialization.
•          Learning: Definition, types, methods and laws of learning ,factors affecting learning.
•         Adjustment- Meaning, methods of adjustment ,conflict, frustration,

Motivation- Meaning, characteristics, need, drive, incentive, types.

• Intelligence-  definition, types of intelligence tests, measurement of intelligence- mental age, intelligence quotient.
• Behavioral problems in  children-Definition, causes , prevention and modification therapies  - hurting other children, destructive attitude, using abusive language, thumb  sucking, bedwetting, masturbation, refusal to eat, lying, stealing, running away, pica, truancy.