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PYC4805 Assignment 02 – Unique Number: 689463 Student Number: 60861274




STUDENT: Toni Megan Pelser
STUDENT NUMBER: 60861274

MODULE: Developmental Psychology
MODULE CODE: PYC4805

ASSIGNMENT: 02
UNIQUE NUMBER: 689463

DUE DATE: 14 July 2017
EXTENSION GRANTED UNTIL: 28 July 2017
EXTENSION GRANTED BY: Professor Ferns
EXTENSION GRANTED ON: 10 July 2017




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,PYC4805 Assignment 02 – Unique Number: 689463 Student Number: 60861274


PLAGIARISM DECLARATION



1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is using another’s work and
pretending that it is one’s own work.

2. I have used the American Psychological Association (APA) as the
convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to,
and quotation in, this assignment from the work, or works of other
people has been attributed and has been cited and referenced.

3. This assignment is my own work.

4. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the
intention of passing it off as his or her own work.

5. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is
wrong, and declare that this assignment is my own work.


NAME: Toni Megan Pelser



SIGNATURE:

DATE: 22 April 2017

MODULE CODE: PYC4805

ASSIGNMENT: 02




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, PYC4805 Assignment 02 – Unique Number: 689463 Student Number: 60861274


Table of Contents




1. PART A …...….……………………………………………………………………...5
a. Section A: Biographical Questionnaire ………..……………………...5
i. Table 1: Biographical Information of Parents ……………………5
ii. Table 2: Biographical Information of Children …………………...5
b. Section B: Parenting Questionnaire ……………………….…..………5
i. Table 3: Authoritative Child-Rearing Style ……………………….5
ii. Table 4: Authoritarian Child-Rearing Style …………………….…6
iii. Table 5: Permissive Child-Rearing Style …………………………6
iv. Table 6: Uninvolved Child-Rearing Style …………………………7
c. Section C: Prosocial Behaviour Questionnaire ………….…….…….7
i. Table 7: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Empathy ………………….7
ii. Table 8: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Awareness of wrong doing
…………………………………………………………………………8
iii. Table 9: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Cooperation ……………..8
iv. Table 10: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Helping behaviour ……..8
v. Table 11: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Awareness of someone
else’s problem ……………………………………………………….9
vi. Table 12: Kind of prosocial behaviour: Accommodating others .9
vii. Table 13: Total scores for prosocial behaviour ………………….9
viii. Table 14: Total scores for child-rearing styles and prosocial
behaviour …………………………………………………….…….10
d. Question 1………………………...…………………………………….…11


2. PART B …….………………………………………………………………………12
1. Introduction…………………….…………………….……………………12
2. Influencing Factors………………………………………………………13
2.1. Sociocultural Factors………………………….….………………….13
2.1.1 Genetics………………………………………….……….…....13
2.1.2 Gender………………………………………………………….14
2.1.3. Culture…………………………………………………………15
2.2. Socioeconomic Factors………………………………………………16

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