INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (PSY 320)

SYLLABUS:

Fall 2009

POWERPOINT SLIDES (FIRST EXAM):

Introduction and Research Methods

Handout on research designs

Prenatal Development

Emotional Development

SLIDES (SECOND EXAM):

Attachment

Development of Self

Understanding of Others

Mastery/Achievement Motivation

SLIDES (THIRD EXAM):

Gender Development

Aggression

Moral Development

SLIDES (FOURTH EXAM):

Socialization in the Family

Child Care and Children's Development

ADDITIONAL READINGS (FIRST EXAM)

Children of the Garden Island

Associations between media viewing and language development in children under age 2 years

Prenatal development and the newborn period (book chapter)

Prenatal cocaine exposure:  A comparison of 2-year-old children in parental and non-parental care

ADDITIONAL READINGS (SECOND EXAM)

Drawing from Pictures:  The development of false drawing and false belief in children with deafness, normal hearing, and autism

Person versus process praise and criticism:  Implications for contingent self-worth and coping

ADDITIONAL READINGS (THIRD EXAM)

Prenatal hormones and postnatal socialization by parents as determinants of male-typical toy play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Children's gender-based reasoning about toys

ADDITIONAL READINGS (FOURTH EXAM)

To be announced . . .

STUDY GUIDES

Study Guide Exam 1 Fall 2009

Study Guide Exam 2 Fall 2009

Revised Study Guide Exam 3 Fall 2009

OTHER INFORMATION

Instructions for Extra Credit Article Summaries