| Description |
1 online resource (81 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge elements. Elements in psychology and culture, 2515-3986 |
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Elements in psychology and culture.
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| Contents |
Child Helpers: A Multidisciplinary Perspective -- Contents -- 1 Juvenile Helpers -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Reconsidering Juvenile Dependency -- 1.3 The Helper Stage in Child Development -- 2 Setting the Stage -- 2.1 Retiring Social Debt -- 2.2 The Importance of Sharing -- 2.3 Playing at Work -- 3 Weighing the Evidence -- 3.1 Helping in the Ethnographic Record -- 3.2 Lab Studies of Child Helpers -- 4 Contrasting Cultural Contexts for Child Helpers -- 4.1 Sustaining the Drive to Be Helpful -- 4.2 Extinguishing the Drive to Be Helpful -- 4.3 The End of the Helper Stage -- 5 What Are the Benefits of the Child's Need to Help? -- 5.1 Affiliation Earned through Collaboration -- 5.2 Collaboration Leads to Learning -- 6 Summary and Conclusions |
| Summary |
In most of the worlds' distinct cultures, children - from toddlerhood - eagerly volunteer to help others with their chores. Laboratory research in child psychology supports the claim that the helper?stage? is biologically based. This Element examines the development of helping in varied cultural contexts, in particular, reviewing evidence for supportive environments in the ethnographic record versus an environment that extinguishes the drive to be helpful in WEIRD children. In the last section, the benefits of the helper stage are discussed, specifically the development of an ability to work and learn collaboratively |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Child Development
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Child development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108769204 |
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1108769209 |
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