How child psychology help me understand what underlies our cognition, behavior, and relationships.

Student’s Name: Tutor: Class: Date: How Child Psychology Has Helped Me Understand What Underlies Our Cognition, Behavior, And Relationships Child psychology emphasizes on the mind and behavior of children often from prenatal growth through teenage years. It focuses not just on how children develop physically but also tries to better comprehend their mental, emotional, and social progress. Traditionally, children were mostly seen as smaller versions of grownups. Piaget proposed that they think more contrarily than grownups. However, Einstein declared that such a finding was so modest that only an intellect might have alleged it. Today, psychologists understand that child psychology is exceptional and multifaceted, but others vary in the exclusive insight they take when approaching growth. This essay explores my early childhood development through the lens of course materials on child psychology. I would focus on memories from my infancy and early childhood, drawing connections to ideas, including infantile amnesia, Freudian theories of development, and the development of fine and gross motor skills. Early Childhood Memories Reflecting on my earliest years, I find myself challenged with a blank canvas, barren of vivid memories. Such phenomenon, referred to as infantile amnesia, has captivated psychologists for decades. Fraud theory provides that infantile amnesia is characterised by a comparative lack of reminiscence before the age of 3 or 4 (Occhionero et al., 13). The phenomenon does not include a comprehensive lack of memoirs but a shortage of memories throughout infancy, specifically those that can well along be predisposed by personal practices and cultural factors and how such memories are recollected and communicated to the children by family members. While I might not recall such events from this period, I am intrigued by how such hidden memories might have influenced my development. As Freud proposes, infantile amnesia, the inquisitive mask covering my earliest years, works as proof of the mysterious nature of memory. Regardless of the lack of memoirs, I am intensely aware of the strong influence this period involving autobiographical memory has had on my development. Freud’s idea that early childhood memories are repressed because of their possibly distressing content resonates with me, sparking introspection into the unconscious forces shaping my inner self (Occhionero et al., 10). By unconscious, Freud relates to the pool of emotional states, desires, memoirs, and opinions that might be separate of our conscious awareness. They are thoughts that are undesirable or unfriendly, including an emotional state of nervousness, conflict, or pain. As I consider the effect of infantile amnesia, I am drawn to the impression of indirect memories looting below the point of consciousness. Freud describes such context as the conscious mind, which includes our memoirs that are not always part of consciousness but can be retrieved easily and brought into awareness through told stories (Occhionero et al., 9). Even though I might not access such memories directly, their echoes resonate with my thoughts and behaviors, subtly influencing my perceptions of self and others. Freud’s idea of the unconscious mind as a pool of blocked wishes and traumatic experiences...