Child Development: Personal, Social and Emotional

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

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Unit Learning Outcomes

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1. — Understand the holistic nature of child development.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1.

    Summarise different aspects of child development.

  • 1.2.

    Discuss how personal and external factors can influence child development.

2. — Know about attachment theory and the effects of privation/deprivation.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1.

    Analyse attachment theory in terms of nativist/empiricist debates.

  • 2.2.

    Appraise Bowlby's research into attachment.

  • 2.3.

    Evaluate studies into maternal privation/deprivation.

3. — Understand the effects of day care on child development.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1.

    Discuss the arguments for and against day care.