Myths in Psychology: Intelligence, Ideology, and Scientific Inquiry

In our country, the development of psychology has been plagued by a series of “myths”. In the process of training psychologists, these myths have often been used, and practitioners of psychology, partly as a result of the training they have received, have acted on their assumptions. This effect is detrimental to the training of psychologists and their subsequent work as professionals. On the one hand, it promotes the impression that the science is really a “pseudoscience” affected by margins of

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Child and Adolescent Development: Stages and Nutritional Needs

Childhood Stages

Every human being under 18 years of age has rights.

Periods of Childhood

  • Newborn
  • Infant
  • Toddler (2-3 years)
  • Preschool (4-6 years)
  • School Age (6-12 years)
  • Adolescence (12-18 years)
  • From birth to about a year, a child’s height increases by approximately 50%.
  • Height increases by another 50% over the next 5 years.

Preschool

  • Between 3 and 6 years, annual increases in weight are about two pounds, and height increases are about six inches each year.
  • A decrease in growth can result in a poor appetite
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Cultural Concepts, Parenting Styles, and Social Theories

Cultural Concepts

Cultural Appropriation: When a person or group adopts aspects of another culture in a way that is considered inappropriate or unacknowledged. This often occurs when members of a majority group adopt cultural elements of a minority group in an exploitative, disrespectful, or stereotypical way.

Assimilation: When immigrant groups are encouraged to “adopt the culture, values, and social behaviors of their host nation.” This means shedding or hiding aspects of one’s culture, including

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Adolescent Socialization: Family, Peers, and Identity Formation

The Socialization Process

It is the process by which various agents of a corporation act on the members of this order to acquire, use, and develop behaviors, motives, feelings, interests, attitudes, and values, ultimately personality characteristics and modes of action, which that society accepts and considers appropriate.

Personality Typology

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Current Family Characteristics

Venezuelan family is the backbone that has enabled the country

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Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences

Ethnography

Ethnography has been conceived as the science which describes and classifies cultures or peoples.

Features:

  • Direct observation
  • Working with unstructured data
  • Working with hypotheses
  • Having a new number of recorded data
  • Exploring nature

Reach:

  • Describes
  • Interprets
  • Includes
  • Theorizes

Example: School textbooks which do not have the same rating. Children and teachers have their own socio-cultural patterns, which are not taken into account when incorporating them into the school. They have their own models

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Research Methods: Types, Scientific Approach, and Experimentation

Research Methods: An Overview

You could say that the research aims to discover something, investigate, and respond systematically to the many questions that human beings do.

Types of Research

Three types of research are:

  1. Historical: Description of what it was.
  2. Descriptive: Interpretation of what it is.
  3. Experimental: Description of what will be.

Historical research is applicable to any discipline. Its primary goal is a “search critique of reality and truth” supported by past events.

Descriptive research

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