The three topics from the class that I think I have taken the most to heart and think will continue to have an impact beyond my time in this class are covered in the lectures on Emotional Development, Self and Others and Gender Development. The concept in each that are the most impactful, is because I see their applicability for my future whereby I will be interacting more with children, potentially even having my own one day and wanting them to benefit from a stronger emotional and social development then I did. Firstly, within the lecture covering Emotional Development, we learned about the PATHS program. With a program is focused on the emotional development of a child, there appear to be long-term effects on not only emotional wellbeing
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Being a woman of mixed background, I think that it is important to not only inform my children of the stereotypes that are present in the world but also shed light to the fact that they are not reliable ways to evaluate others. In chapter 6 of the book, it was discussed that in late childhood, the development of one's own identity leads to an in-group and out-group mentality (Parke, Ross D., & Alison Clarke-Stewart, 2014). I would want to put extra focus on my own children on matters of race and ethnicity biases and stereotypes. Furthermore, we covered in class manners in which to reduce these in children such as exposure to more people of various …show more content…
While we were given multiple real-world statistical analysis in class, there were some that were not provided for which I would like to know the percentage or the significance of. One of such topics is in reference to the religious role on the female and male perceptions during development, yet another would be to dive more into the long-term effects that the different peer acceptances have such as the long-term effects of remaining in a particular group over one's life. In order to answer such questions, the best way would be to look at peer-reviewed APA journals to see if any information has been published on such
Being a woman of mixed background, I think that it is important to not only inform my children of the stereotypes that are present in the world but also shed light to the fact that they are not reliable ways to evaluate others. In chapter 6 of the book, it was discussed that in late childhood, the development of one's own identity leads to an in-group and out-group mentality (Parke, Ross D., & Alison Clarke-Stewart, 2014). I would want to put extra focus on my own children on matters of race and ethnicity biases and stereotypes. Furthermore, we covered in class manners in which to reduce these in children such as exposure to more people of various …show more content…
While we were given multiple real-world statistical analysis in class, there were some that were not provided for which I would like to know the percentage or the significance of. One of such topics is in reference to the religious role on the female and male perceptions during development, yet another would be to dive more into the long-term effects that the different peer acceptances have such as the long-term effects of remaining in a particular group over one's life. In order to answer such questions, the best way would be to look at peer-reviewed APA journals to see if any information has been published on such