Psychology
154: Cognitive Development (Spring, 2013)
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SYLLABUS
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SYLLABUS
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Psychology
154: Cognitive Development (Spring, 2013)
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WEEK
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MONDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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READING | LAB (Unspecified Due Dates are on Tuesdays) |
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1/21
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MLK Day (NO CLASS) |
Introduction and Mechanics
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No Reading
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Lab:
None |
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1/28
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Professor Moore out of town
(NO CLASS) |
Cognition, Development, and the Developmental Perspective | Chapter 1 | Lab: None
DUE to TA in class on Jan. 30: Research interests and hypotheses |
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2/4
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Questions Driving
Developmentalists
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Evolution, Biology, and Development
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Chapter 2 |
Lab:
Library Orientation
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2/11
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DCN:
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
Social Constructivism:
Here come the Soviets! |
Chapter 3 | Lab: Sex differences lab, NIH ethics course, variables and causation
DUE to TA: Research project topic proposal |
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2/18
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Perception in Infancy:
How can you ever know a baby's world? |
Perception in Infancy:
Audition and Vision |
Chapter 4 | Lab: IRB procedures, ethics, confounds and control
DUE: Online NIH ethics course |
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2/25
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Perception in Infancy:
Cross-modal Integration and Imitation |
Cognition in Infancy?
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Chapter 4 |
Lab:
APA style
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| 3/4 | Piagetian Theory: Represent! |
Piaget's Stages | Chapter 5 | Lab: Experimental design
DUE: Sex differences write-up |
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3/11
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Overflow or Review
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Midterm
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No Reading | Lab:
None |
| 3/18 | SPRING BREAK! | SPRING BREAK! | No Reading | DUE this week:
IRB approval for research study (it could take 2 or more weeks to get this--plan ahead!) |
| 3/25 | What the Folk? Theory of Mind |
What the Folk? Science for Kids |
Chapter 6 |
Lab:
Statistics
DUE on March 29: Research project proposal |
| 4/1 | Processing Information like an Executive | Information Processing: Strategic Problem Solving |
Chapter 7 |
Lab:
Interpreting results
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| 4/8 | Memory from before you can remember | Childhood Memories | Chapter 8 |
Lab:
Forum
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| 4/15 | Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics | SRCD Conference (NO CLASS) |
Chapter 9 | Lab:
None (SRCD Conference) |
| 4/22 | A "theory" of language: The rise of Nativism |
I am | Chapter 10 |
Lab:
Forum
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| 4/29 | I am gendered | School of School | Chapter 11 | Lab:
None (Solo meetings) |
| 5/6 | Heritability the Hideous | Concluding Wrap-up | Chapter 13 |
Lab:
None
DUE on May 8: Final Research Paper |
| 5/13 | FINAL EXAM 7:00 p.m. |
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