Lectures (Video)
- 1. Developmental Research Methods
- 2. Prenatal Development
- 3. Brain Development
- 4. Mapping the Developing Brain
- 5. Nature and Nurture
- 6. The Gendered Brain
- 7. Theories of Cognitive Development
- 8. Perception and Action in Infancy
- 9. Infant Cognition and Learning
- 10. Language Development 1 - Basics
- 11. Language 2 - Perceiving Speech
- 12. Language 3 - Learning Words
- 13. Concepts 1 - Psychology and Biology
- 14. Autism
- 15. Concepts 2 - Math and Physics
- 16. Concepts 2 - Math and Physics II
- 17. Emotion
- 18. Attachment
- 19. The Self and Identity
- 20. The 21st Century Family
- 21. Varieties of Child Care
- 22. Childhood Adversity
- 23. Moral Reasoning
- 24. Prosocial Behavior
- 25. Review
Developmental Psychology
Course Summary
This course is based on Psych 140 Developmental Psychology, Fall 2007 made available by University of California, Berkeley: Webcast.Berkeley under the Creative commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.
(Note: Only audio recordings of the lectures are available)
Reading Material
1. Textbook (Berkeley Psych 140): The Development of ChildrenMichael Cole, Sheila Cole, and Cynthia Lightfoot, The Development of Children, 5th edition, Worth Publishers
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