Internet Exercises

As an assignment in her Child Psychology course, Kristin has been asked to write about the intellectual contribution of any 20th century developmental psychologist. During her research, she stumbles upon the following website that ranks the top 20th century psychologists. As she reads through the list, she finds the names of several developmental psychologists discussed in her Child Psychology textbook. Who are they and what was their intellectual contribution to the field of child psychology?

• edtech.tph.wku.edu/~shaggblo/tcl.htm

Erika has never put much faith in Freud's theories, especially the one about the Oedipus Complex and how it accounts for differences in male and female moral development. Her professor in Child Psychology challenged her to find out if there is empirical evidence to support Freud's claims. What does the following website reveal?

• www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/vornikFreud/oedip.htm

Thirteen-year-old Amy was adopted from a Chinese orphanage when she was about three years of age by her Caucasian parents. Ever since, she has lived in Atlantic Canada. As she enters puberty, she struggles with defining her identity. Part of that struggle is determining whether she really is Chinese or Canadian. At times, she doesn't feel that she is either. How can Amy begin to resolve this ethnic identity crisis?

• www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/identity2.htm#young