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Aims:
To introduce some of the major approaches to
describing and explaining the way thinking and
cognitive processing changes across time. To
develop an understanding of normal development and
its relation to atypical development and clinical
practice.
Course
coordinator: Gary Morgan (LCS)
9.00
– 11.00 p.m. Friday
(excluding reading weeks)
Room:
A366
Course
requirements:
One
journal review (1,200 words maximum)
Set Jan 20th, due Feb 25th
One
section in written examination. Past exam papers
available at University Library website
Course
reading:
Goswami.
U. (1998) Cognition in Children.
Psychology press.
(Specific
reading given in each lecture)
Course
outline 2005 - 2006
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TERM 1
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LECTURER
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TOPIC
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WEEK1
30 Sept
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GM
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2
7 Oct
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MP
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- Piaget’s account of development in the
pre-school years.
- Modern interpretations of this account
- BACKGROUND
READING
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3
14 Oct
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GM
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- Conceptualising Causality
- Conceptualising Agency
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4
21 Oct
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GM
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- The development of understanding of other
humans
- The development of word meaning
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5
28 Oct
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MP
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- Alternative accounts of development in the
pre-school years
- Information processing, modularity
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6
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Reading week
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7
11 Nov
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MP
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- Accounts of development in the school years.
- Piaget, information processing, the impact
of schooling.
- Theories of intelligence and intelligence
testing
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8
18 Nov
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GM
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- Practice
coursework session
- Structure
- Content
- Style
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9
25 Nov
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TW
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- Children’s awareness of their own &
others’ mental processes.
- Theory of mind
Assigned
reading:
1.
BACKGROUND
PAPER
2.
RECENT
RESEARCH
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10
2 Dec
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TW
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- Development
of language and theory of mind in deaf
children
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11
9 Dec
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GM
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TERM
2
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LECTURER
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TOPIC
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Week 1
Jan 20th
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PR
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- Self concept and identity development in
adolescence
- Cognitive development & social cognition
- Language impairment and psychological
problems in adolescence
- WRITTEN COURSEWORK SET
- Hand-in
3rd March
- Coursework
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2
27 Jan
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PR
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- Cognitive changes in old age
- Methodological issues
- Assessment of the elderly
- Memory, information processing &
language changes.
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3
3rd
Feb
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PR
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- Child abuse, types, causes and consequences
- Links to early attachment and cognitive and language development
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4
10th Feb
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PR
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- Play, symbolic representation and language
in normal and atypical development
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5
17th
feb
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RW
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6
24th Feb
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READING WEEK
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7
3rd March
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RW
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- PCT : Personal Construct Theory
- Principles and clinical applications (cont.)
COURSEWORK HAND-IN 2pm to General
Office
No
coversheet-no mark
MARKED BY END OF TERM
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8
10th March
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GM
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WEB
RESOURCES
(working
when page was published)
- Overview
of developmental studies. Username: c3
(all lowercase) Password: Strawberry8
(uppercase 's' and no spaces). Look at content links and relevant chapters.
- Piaget's
Stage Theory of Development.
Brief resumé (J. Sandwell).
- GeroWeb.
An online resource for researchers, educators,
practitioners, and others interested in aging
and older individuals. (Institute of
Gerontology, Wayne State U.).
- Cognitive
and Developmental Disability Sites.
(Waisman Center, U. Wisconsin-Madison).
- Skeptic
Magazine Interview With
Robert Sternberg on The Bell Curve.
Re- Intelligence testing (Frank Miele, the
Skeptics Society).
- Beyond
the Individual -Social
Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
(Michael Cole, U Calif., San Diego & James
V. Wertsch, Washington U, St. Louis).
- VYGOTSKY.
An introduction to some of the basic concepts
of Vygotskyean theory (Trish Nicholl, Massey
U, NZ).
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