Potential
Topics for PSYCH 199
- Nature
and nurture: Behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, and
epigenesis
- The
prenatal environment: Alcohol and/or other teratogens
- Sensation
and perception in fetuses
- Neurodevelopment:
Risk, resilience, and intervention
- Hearing
and sound recognition in newborns
- Newborn
vision
- Sensation
and perception in neonates: Olfaction and gustation
- Face
perception in newborns
- The
social glue: Bonding and Kangaroo Care
- Motor
development: Its causes and trajectory
- The
consequences of motor development
- The
perception of objects
- Early
interactions: Joint attention and gaze following
- Early
interactions: Social referencing
- The
social glue: Attachment
- All
together now: Intersensory integration
- Imitation
- Temper,
temper: Emotion regulation and temperament
- Cars,
glass, and wind: Infant categorization
- Object
permanence
- Spatial
cognition: Mental rotation
- Spatial
cognition: Navigation
- Baby
genius: Rudimentary math and physics
- Long
ago and far away: Memory in infancy
- Predicting
and measuring intelligence in infancy
- Infant-directed
speech
- Language
development: The perception of linguistic sounds
- Language
development: The function of linguisitic labels
- Theory
of mind
- Infants'
emerging sense of self
- Maternal
depression
- The
effects of daycare
- Developmental
cognitive neuroscience
- Connectionism:
Modeling infant development with computers
- Studying
infant development via neuroimaging
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