Course Details
Whether you're a parent, teacher, Nursery Assistant or Child Minder, this course will give you a deeper understanding of the children in your care.
What makes children tick? What factors matter most in shaping a baby or toddler's personality and behaviour? How do children develop socially and emotionally - and how can we help them along the way?
If you find such questions intriguing - and if you'd like to know the answers - then our Diploma in Child Psychology could be one of the most rewarding and valuable trainings you ever take.
Among other things, you'll learn how children build relationships with others, how they acquire behaviour and how they develop moral judgment. You'll also study the importance of play, and look at other fascinating areas such as the development of language, the development of gender roles and the biological basis of aggression.
If you're a parent, this course will give you fresh insights you can use in your own family every day. If you're an established child care professional, it will deepen and enrich the skills you already possess. And if you're a new entrant to the child care profession, it will provide a firm foothold for your future career.
Start learning today from as little as £1.20 a day.
At the end of your course you will be able to sit for the optional ASET Level 3 Diploma in child psychology.
ASET (Accreditation Syndicate for Education & Training) is a leading National Awarding Body specialising in providing, quality-assuring and certificating vocational learning programmes.
Taking the Diploma in child psychology will improve your understanding of children and show commitment to their development as well as your own. This will make you more accomplished and make your CV stand out when applying for jobs
Module 1: Major Developmental Issues
Unit 1: The First Year of Life
Infant reflexes; Social development during the first year of life including the social smile and onset of fear of strangers.
Unit 2: The Formation of Attachments
Imprinting; Attachment (Bowlby) including cross-cultural studies; Harlow and surrogate mothers; Relevance of animal studies in child development.
Unit 3: Consequences of Breakdowns in Attachments
Maternal deprivation; Implications of theories of attachment and maternal deprivation when placing children with surrogates.
Unit 4: The Home, Family and School Group vs. family care and studies of effects of maternal employment and father absent families; Importance of peers and siblings.
Unit 5: Basic Principles of Research Methods
Nature and purpose of research, what is an experiment, supporting and refuting hypotheses, independent and dependent variables, control of variables, standardised instructions and procedures, methods of sampling, design of investigations.
Unit 6: The Development of Visual Perception
Introduction to the nature/nurture debate on visual perception; Fantz - form perception; Gibson and Walk - depth perception; how the physiology of the human visual system helps us judge depth and distance; Bower - size constancy; animal experiments on early sensory deprivation.
Unit 7: The Development of Language and Communication
Development of non-verbal communication in humans, gestures etc; comparisons with non-human primates; outline of language development in humans; including naturalistic observational in humans; including naturalistic observational studies and criticisms of these; Innate and reinforcement theories.
Unit 8: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing
Definitions of intelligence; mental age and IQ; Tests of intelligence; Advantages and disadvantages of IQ testing.
Unit 9: The Nature/Nurture Debate in the Study of Intelligence Twins studies; stability of IQ; Are early experiences decisive for later development?
Unit 10: Data Collection and Interpretation
Tables and histograms, correlation and scattergrams; Mean; Range; Drawing conclusions from data.
Module Two The Child as an Individual
Unit 11: How Children Think Piaget's theory of cognitive development; including studies of egocentrism and criticisms of his work.
Unit 12: Learning Theory - How Behaviour is Acquired
Learning and conditioning - classical conditioning and operant conditioning; including explanations of extinction, discrimination and generalisation; positive and negative reinforcement; Social Learning Theory and criticisms.
Unit 13: Freud's Psychodynamic Theory - An Alternative Approach Personality structure, 5 stage theory and criticisms.
Unit 14: Moral Development
Definition in psychological terms; investigation of moral behaviour, moral feelings and moral judgement.
Unit 15: The Development of Gender Roles
Sex-typing; Gender identity; Biological, social and cultural theories.
Unit 16: Aggression in Children
Biological basis of aggression; Psychological theory and aggression; Aggression as a learned response; Imitation of aggression; viewing violence; Punishment for aggression; sex differences in aggression.
Unit 17: Methods Used in Child Development
Research; Observational, Survey, Correlational, Experimental - advantages and disadvantages.
Unit 18: Play
The importance of play to learning; Piaget's theory of play; forms of play; Relevance of psychological theories to pre-school education; Play and learning in nursery schools; Play therapy.
Unit 19: Learning in School Programmed
learning and its relationship to learning theory - advantages and disadvantages; Discovery learning and its effectiveness.
Unit 20: Behaviour
Modification Explanation and examples; Relationship to learning theory; Points systems, Advantages and disadvantages.
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You will need to complete 20 units with 4 set assignments throughout the duration of the Diploma in child psychology. These should be completed and submitted to your tutor.
The Diploma in child psychology is divided into 2 modules, and will gradually introduce you to the different aspects of the subject. You will steadily progress made as you work through the Diploma in child psychology, which most of our students can complete within approximately 100 hours of study.
You don't need to know anything about the subject before you start, but by the end of the course you will know enough to take a professional Diploma in child psychology ASET qualification.
You don't need to know anything about the subject before you start, but by the end of the course you will know enough to think about taking a professional ASET qualification.
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With the Diploma in child psychology you may be able to apply for jobs as a Child Minder, or Teaching Assistant and earn salaries of up to £29,000* per annum.
*Source: totaljobs