SYLLABUS FOR PSYCH 154

Week of:

Tuesday

Reading for Tuesday

Thursday

Reading for Thursday

Labs and
assignments due

1/16

Introduction
and
Mechanics

None

Cognition, Development, and the Developmental Perspective

Siegler
pp. 1 - 22

LAB:
None

1/23

Questions that Drive Developmentalists

Flavell
Chapter 1

Piagetian Theory

Siegler
pp. 26 - 34

LAB:
Library
DUE:
Research Interests

1/30

The Sensorimotor and Preoperational Stages

Siegler
pp. 34 - 42
Flavell
pp. 63 - 75

Concrete Operations,
Formal Operations

Siegler
pp. 42 - 53
Flavell
pp. 139 - 149

LAB:
Methods
and Piaget
DUE:
Library Assignment
+ Hypothesis

2/6

Information Processing

Siegler
pp. 65 - 75

NeoPiagetian and Psychometric Information Processing Theories

Siegler
pp. 75 - 86

LAB:
Methods
and Ethics
DUE:
Method

2/13

Production Systems, Connectionism, and Evolution

Siegler
pp. 86 - 106

Here come the Soviets!

Siegler
pp. 107 - 121
& pp. 125 - 132

LAB:
APA Format

2/20

Perception:
Methods

Flavell
pp. 29 - 33
Siegler
pp. 141 - 144

Perception:
Audition and Vision

Siegler
pp. 144 - 172

LAB:
APA Format
DUE:
Piaget Lab

2/27

Perception:
Cross-modal Integration and Imitation

Siegler
pp. 172 - 181
Flavell
pp. 54 - 62

Object Permanence Revisited,
and Piaget Evaluated

Siegler
pp. 54 - 64
Flavell
pp. 75 - 86

LAB:
Memory
and Statistics

3/6

Overflow

None

Midterm

None

LAB:
Statistics
and Review
DUE:
Proposal
(by 3/9)

3/13

SPRING

BREAK

....NO

CLASS!

NO LAB

3/20

Early Psycholinguistics:
Theory, Brain, and Motherese

Siegler
pp. 183 - 190
Flavell
pp. 48 - 54

Phonology
and Semantics

Siegler
pp. 190 - 208

LAB:
Forum

3/27

Syntax
and Pragmatics

Siegler
pp. 208 - 224

NO CLASS
(SRCD!)

Flavell
pp. 275 - 281,
& pp. 297 - 320

LAB:
Forum

4/3

Memory:
Concepts, Distinctions,
and Early Glimmerings

Flavell
pp. 233 - 240
Siegler
pp. 226 - 232

Memory:
Basic Capacities
and Strategies

Siegler
pp. 232 - 253

LAB:
Forum
DUE:
Memory Lab

4/10

Memory:
Knowledge
and Metacognition

Siegler
pp. 253 - 265

Categorization

Siegler
pp. 268 - 283
Flavell
pp. 90 - 93

LAB:
Forum?

4/17

Conceptual Development:
Natural Kinds, Time, and Space

Flavell
pp. 108 - 117
Siegler
pp. 283 - 292

Biological and Mathematical Concepts

Siegler
pp. 292 - 304
(and look over Flavell
pp. 117 - 135)

LAB:
Forum

4/24

Social Cognition:
Definitions
and Models,
Theory of Mind, and Development in Infancy

Siegler
pp. 305 - 322

Social Cognition:
Later Developments

Siegler
pp. 323 - 340

LAB:
Solo Meetings

5/1

The Future of Developmental Psychology

Siegler
Chapter 12

Conclusions
and
Questions

None

LAB:
Solo Meetings
DUE:
Final Project

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