Child Behaviour Psychology

Becoming parent is one of the greatest joys in life. And looking at your new family member is one of the greatest sights. It is as if tranquility and bliss has descended upon you. Yet you are concerned for the child, thinking deeply about the upbringing of him. His well-being, education and future, all are in the vision.

It doesn't seem too long before you let go of your child's hand at the school gate and new teachers enter his life to assist him through the next phase of learning. You may feel as if the closeness of the toddler years is over. But in fact the early discoveries and experiences you shared with your children have built up love, trust, bonding, skills and confidence. These will become the building blocks for their next phase of growing.

Early experiences of learning can shape children's feelings and the way they learn to respond to situations. So the way you encourage learning for your children is a crucial part of growing up. When they are toddlers, you probably encourage your children to take risks, support their efforts and praise their attempts as well as their successes.

Once they enter formal schooling, the 'pressure' to learn and the expectations of success are more apparent, and you may forget to give them the support they need. But continuing to support them is essential, right through their school years. Learning takes place within diverse groups of people, friendships and teachers. The older they get, the more expansive is their learning and the more affected it is by external factors and influences.

Today in any introductory psychology textbook available, you will find a general definition of psychology close to this: "The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior is considered to be anything that an individual does, or any action that can be observed by others. Mental processes are the internal, subjective, unobservable components, such as thoughts, beliefs, feelings, sensations, perceptions etc. that can be inferred from behavior".

We may not like to admit it, but what drives much of our behaviour is our response to pain and pleasure. In other words, emotions rather than reasoning or intellectual knowledge are the important driving forces for our behaviour. Emotions affect our reactions to learning and learning experiences. Same is for Children!

A child's brain is like a blank canvas. You can paint whatever image you want to. This will make them the "individuals" they are. Kids grow fast and each moment of their physical development will progress towards the mental development too.

It has emerged through study that the mind consists largely of an unconscious that arguably provides the conscious with what it will think. This research was originally carried out by Benjamin Libet in 1967 and has been repeatedly verified, most recently by John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin.

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