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Teen punishment is a disciplinary method aimed at correcting teenagers’ misconduct, ranging from grounding and loss of privileges to more severe forms like corporal punishment. However, effectiveness is debated and punishment might foster fear, anger, and resentment rather than teaching positive behavior. Continuous application of punishment can obscure natural consequences, impede cognitive learning, and prompt …

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Attachment issues are difficulties forming and sustaining healthy emotional connections, often rooted in early childhood experiences and past relationships. These issues can lead to insecure attachment styles, such as anxious, avoidant, or fearful in adults and ambivalent, avoidant, or disorganized in children.  Insecure attachments arise in childhood when caregivers are unresponsive, inconsistent, neglectful, or abusive, …

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Attachment is the emotional connection formed between an infant and their primary caregiver, impacting the child’s comfort-seeking behavior when distressed. Attachment Theory, introduced by John Bowlby and expanded through Mary Ainsworth’s research, suggests that early attachments shape one’s self-perception, relationships, and behavior into adulthood.  Ainsworth identified three initial attachment styles, secure, ambivalent, and avoidant, later …

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Remember swearing you’d never yell at your child like your parents did, only to find yourself doing exactly that? Many of us struggle with this. Parenting is hard, but there’s a way to break the cycle. It starts with understanding our own childhood and healing our emotional wounds. A dysfunctional family is characterized by consistent …

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Parenting is a delicate balance of instinct, love, and a growing understanding of child development. For the science-minded parent, research offers insights that empower us to make informed choices. TABLE OF CONTENTSWhat is parenting?What are the top 10 responsibilities of a parent?What is child development?What are parenting styles?What is child discipline?How to build a strong …

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TABLE OF CONTENTSWhat is child development?What is physical development?What is cognitive development?Theories of cognitive developmentPiaget’s Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentVygotsky’s Sociocultural TheoryWhat is social-emotional development?What are Erikson’s stages of development?What is language development?What is sensory development?What is moral development?What is asynchronous development?References What is child development? Child development is the physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language, sensory, and …

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Reinforcement schedules govern the timing and frequency of rewards in operant conditioning, influencing behavior repetition. These schedules, categorized as continuous or partial, dictate when a behavior is reinforced, with consequences following every instance (continuous) or intermittently (partial). The latter includes fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval, and variable ratio schedules, each affecting behavior differently. TABLE …

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Critical thinking is an essential cognitive process that involves actively analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information to form reasoned judgments and solve problems. John Dewey defined reflective thinking as the careful and deliberate determination of whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment about a claim. Critical thinking skills include conceptualization, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, synthesis, problem-solving, and …

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Classical conditioning, a foundational concept introduced by Ivan Pavlov through his work with dogs, explains how associative learning occurs by pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response. This learning mechanism demonstrates how organisms, including humans, respond to previously neutral stimuli with conditioned reactions, mirroring natural responses to stimuli that …

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