Cultural Differences In Child Psychology

Children Psychology is a topic in psychology that studies how children perform certain behaviors. It examines how a certain behavior that a child performs can influence a certain behavior as the child grows and becomes an adult. Also, there are many different factors that a child experiences growing up that can influence these adult behaviors. Many experiments have been performed to prove these different variables as true. These may be variables such as money, social, culture, age, location, and heuristic bias. First of all, it is evident that each family raises their child differently depending on factors such as money. According to the article, “Developmental Psychology’s Weird Problem” by Jane C. Hu, a family with more money will be able to spend more money on their child for school and tests. Children who grow up in a family with a lot of money have been proven by research to be more proficient in certain areas that a normal child at that …show more content…
According to the article, “What Is Child Psychology?” by Kendra Cherry, If a child’s friends and family treat them with more respect, it is more likely that a child will be more advanced than they should be at their age in terms of knowledge and language proficiency. Also, a culture as a very similar effect as their social lives. Culture means a way of life in which someone lives. It is their beliefs, morals and values within society. Since everyone has their own culture, each family believes in raising their child in different ways. Some people believe that bringing their child to childcare will lower their relationships with family and they won’t learn to be as family oriented as they should be. Also, everyone believes in their own education system. Some believe that bringing a child to public school is better, some believe it’s better for the child if they attend private school and some believe that homeschooling is the better