PSY 2105 Lecture 1: Lecture 1; Intro
Monday, January 8th, 2018
• How does one develop from infant to young adult? (Emerging adulthood)
• Studying development not necessarily in order (organized by systems, not chapter by age)
• Biological and social systems
• Linking current problems to early development
• Positive change since coming to university?
• How can we study development generally and with specificity to children? How do we
couicate ith the he they hae’t yet deeloped to a leel they uderstad?
• Are we born with thought, language and morality?
• Unit 1: Emerging Adulthood and Research Methods
o How have you and others your age developed?
• Unit 2: Growth and sensory motor development
o Whe does it start
o How does baby intelligence differ from child/teen/adult intelligence
• Unit 3: Cognitive and Language Development
o How we begin to act and understand
o Speech understanding and production
• Social and Moral Development:
o How we understand our self and others
o How we learn to think about right and wrong
• Office hours, Wednesday, 16-17 by appointment with email
o shammond@uottawa.ca
o Usually answered within 2 days, nothing last minute
• Should be doing 3 hour of class work outside class per 1 hour of class
• Lecture goes beyond slides; take notes of interactions, conversations, oral info
• Assessments:
o NON-CSL
▪ Blog posts (10%)
▪ Short posts about past week, due Friday at 11:59 pm starting week 3
▪ Emerging adulthood assignment (20%) (Am I an emerging adult?)
▪ Exams, 30 and 40%
o CSL:
▪ Still doing blog posts, but can reflect on placement
▪ CSL assignment (20%)
▪ And Exams
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