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Note: the units represent the sequence of topics, not the actual class sessions. Like development, we can predict the sequence but not the actual timing! Each topic may take more or less time, depending on how difficult it is or how much discussion it generates. Students are expected to know what topic is being discussed and which topic will follow. In doubt, it is always possible to email me at [email protected]
Readings may be added during the term, and they will be posted online or indications given as to where they can be found (e.g. on reserve in library) There will be many required readings that can only be found on reserve in the library
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Unit
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Reading
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Topics
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1
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Text - Ch 1 ; Beebe & Lachmann, Infant Research and Adult Treatment : "Early capacities & pre-symbolic representation"
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What is development. Quantitative vs. qualitative change. Normative and individual development. Evolution, heredity and environment. Theories: cognitive, social and emotional. Research methods, with particular attention to the work of the Infant Researchers (Beebe, Lachmann, Stern) and the analysis of moment-to-moment interactions of the mother-infant dyad.
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2
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Text Ch 2
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Contexts of development: biological, immediate environment of child, social and economic context, cultural context
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3
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Text Ch 3
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Heredity and prenatal development: genes and heredity, prenatal stages, mother's experience of pregnancy, environmental influences on prenatal dev., genetic defects, Childbirth.
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4
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Text Ch 4: Daniel Stern The Interpersonal World oft he Infant: "The sense of an emergent self"
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Infancy: infant states, reflexes, motor skills, senses and perception, learning. The self and the self object. The experience of the newborn, how we can reconstruct it through observation. Amodal perception, vitality affects, Representations of Interactions that have been Generalized
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5
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Text Ch 5; Stern "Sense of a core self"
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Cognitive development in infancy. Piaget's stages, concept of the object in infancy. Memory. Infant stimulation. The beginnings of an organized sense of self: Invariants
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6
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Text Ch 6; Robert Karen, Becoming Attached: ch 13: Minnesota Studies; ch14: Mother, Father and outside world, ch15 Structures of mind; Beebe & Lachmann ch 5 Patterns of early interactive regulation
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Attachment: infant social and emotional development. First half year – innate social preadaptation, attunement and sensitive care, the smile. Second half year; emotional development, stranger response, attachment, patterns of attachment, temperament. Importance of early care, sensitive periods. Working models of attachment. Regulation: self regulation and interactive regulation.
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7
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Chapter 7;
Daniel Stern ch 8
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Toddlers: language and thought. Components of language. tasks in language learning, social use of language. Environmentalist vs Nativist theories, non-linguistic symbolic representation, pretend play, gestures. Sense of a verbal self: language as a way of "being with"; "we-meanings" in language, Language as a double-edged sword- what we gain and what we lose with language.
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8
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Chapter 8
Liotti: dissociation and attachment
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Toddler social and emotional development. Socialization from outside and inside. Other developments. Parent-toddler relationship. Roots of personality. Separation-individuation. Parental abuse and neglect. attachment patterns - film in class -
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9
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Chapter 9
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Cognitive development in early childhood. Preschool thought. Quantitative tasks, number, other conceptual tools. social cognition: child's theory of mind, egocentrism. Vygotsky and social aspects of cognition
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10
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Chapter 10
Erikson: Genital modes and spatial modalities
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Social and emotional development in early childhood. Developing self: self-understanding, self constancy, self esteem. Sexual identity, social development, peers, social competence. Emotional development. Play. Parent's role- styles of parenting, identification.
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11
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Chapter 11
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Middle childhood- cognitive development. Conservation, classification. Social interaction and cognitive development. Intelligence.
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12
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Chapter 12
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Social and emotional development in middle childhood. The self. emergence of psychological self. The self objects. social self, sexual identity. Peers. emotional development. contexts of development.
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13
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Chapter 13
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Adolescence: physical and cognitive development. Biological changes. Puberty- hormonal activity, secondary sex characteristics, impact of pubertal change on body image and social relationships. Neurological changes. Cognitive changes: formal operations. Social cognition.
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14
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Chapter 14
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Social and emotional development. Identity. Development of self. peer relationships. sexual activity. family relationships.
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15
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Chapter 15: Stern:ch 9 the observed infant; Bowlby, Separation: Anxious attachment and the phobias of childhood; Miller: “The drama of the gifted child”
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Pathological development. Risks, protective factors. Defining and assessing health and pathology. Biological, environmental and developmental perspectives. Types of disorders.
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