Childhood Studies is relatively new but it looks at different …show more content…
British children would have been disciplined should they act 'naughty ' using forceful measures whereas today these measures are discouraged and instead we are encouraged to use a reward system to teach them certain behaviors are 'good ' so this is an example of how ideas have changed over time. In the 1970 's a famous experiment called the 'Baby X experiment ' (Seavey et al., 1975) shows that more often participants would present what they believed to be a male infant with a ball and a female infant with a doll to play with, also when playing with the male they would be more physically encouraging whilst with the female they would be more soothing which let us see that people 's beliefs about childhood (which can be influenced through their own upbringing, media, advertising etc) affected the way they interacted with the …show more content…
Whereas Child Psychologists focus more on behaviorisms and developemental stages in a childs life such as theories regarding 'continuous development ' and 'discontinuous development ' to try and describe, explain and predict