Sequence
• Child Psychology and Related Issues
• Objectives of Education
• Corporal Punishment and Its Effects on
Child’s Personality
Personality
• For psychologists, personality is a set of
relatively enduring behavioral characteristics
and internal predispositions that describe how
a personality reacts to the environment.
Psychologists recognize that an individual’s
behavior is not consistent all the time or in
every situation.
Heredity
Gender
Physical Conditions
Environment
Cultural Factors
Social Factors
Situational Factors
Personality
Environment
• Family
• Education
• Religion
• Health System
• Political & Economic System
• Legal System
• Adaptability to new Technologies
• Sports Facilities
• Perception is the process by which people interpret the input from their senses to give meaning and order to the world around them.
• Accurate perceptions are necessary to make good decisions and to motivate workers to perform at a high level, to be fair and equitable, and to be ethical.
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• The process of combining, integrating
and interpreting information about
others to gain an accurate
understanding of them.
• Personal identity
• Social Identity
Social Perception
Cognitive frameworks that represent organized
knowledge about a given concept or stimulus
developed through experience.
Schemas effect :
Information Interpretation
Decision Making
Attitude
BEHAVIORS
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Attitude
• An attitude is a mental stage of readiness, learned
and organized through experience, exerting a
specific influence on a person’s response to
people, objects, and situations with which it is
related.
• Attitudes are evaluative statements that are either
favorable or unfavorable concerning
objects, people, or events.
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The UnconsciousThe conscious. The small
amount of mental activity we know about.
The preconscious. Things
we could be aware of if we wanted or tried.
The unconscious. Things
we are unaware of and can not become aware of.
Thoughts
Perceptions
Memories
Stored knowledge
Fears
Unacceptable sexual desires
Violent motives
Irrational wishes
Immoral urges
Selfish needs
Shameful experiences
Traumatic experiences
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Personality Development
• Increase the need for achievement of a child
• Improve the perception of a child about the society. Improved
perception will create a better attitude which will result in
cultured behavior.
• Provide sports and extra curricular activities where a child can
polish his/her hidden talents.
• Allow the child an open culture where he/she can develop their
creativity.
CYCLE OF POVERTY
Low Income Households
Stress Related Diseases
Problem child comes
to school
Creates poor Human Capital
Responsibility of Teachers
• Learn Empathy.
• Provide a Model to the child to improve his/her social
identity.
• Improve your communication style. Be an active listener.
• Understand the motivation process of a child. Provide
encouragement to improve his/her self confidence.
• Provide counseling to difficult parents and children.
Effects of Corporal
Punishment
• It lowers their self-esteem.
• It interferes with the learning process and with their
intellectual, sensory and emotional development.
• It discourages the use of reasoning.
• It makes children feel lonely, sad and abandoned.
• Impede teacher-child communication.
Effects of Corporal
Punishment
• Lowers the need for achievement.
• Violence begets violence.
• Children become critical of authority.