Thursday, March 15, 2012

More Narrowed Topic--yay!

So now that we've recently turned in our second portfolio, I thought I'd update on my topic. I've been getting a lot of books from online and the library and they're really helping. I have a textbook on developmental psychology Mrs. Kelly gave me. In it, there are a few questions that you're supposed to answer to see what psychologist you agree with. You know questions like do you think children are born inherently good? I mostly agreed with Skinner, but it made me realize something. All of these well-known and highly influential psychologists have one thing in common, they all disagree and have their own theories. Through my reading I've realized there are things I agree with and disagree with in all of them. So I've decided to further develop my beliefs on early child development and then using my study seek to prove or disprove them. In this way, I can say that I will be doing a study with a hypothesis now. Which is pretty exciting considering previously I had no direction.

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