Lecture/Class Schedule: Psyc2153 Fall 1997
Please note that this is tentative and subject to change.
last revised November 25th 1997
 
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Date
Material to be covered (and relevant links)
Chapter: pages
1 Sept. 5 Introductions: you, me, and the course  
2 Sept. 8 Developmental psych.: perspectives & issues  Chapter 1 
3 Sept. 10 Developmental theories 
Theories in Developmental Psych  
Ch. 2: pp 29-50
4 Sept. 12 Developmental theories (continued) Ch. 2: 29-50
5 Sept. 15 Developmental research (scientific) methods Research Methods  
Experimental Designs
Ch. 2: 50-63
6 Sept. 17 Genetics: "genotype" vs "phenotype" Ch. 3: 65-82 
7 Sept. 19 Chromosomal abnormalities Misc. Notes on Genetics  Principles of Teratogenic Effects  Ch. 3: 82-95 
8 Sept. 22 Genetic Councelling,  Prenatal Development Ch. 4: 97-118
9 Sept. 24 Childbirth: Class discussions,  Interview assignment #1 due  Quotes etc. re. Childbirth  Ch. 4: 118-27 
10 Sept. 26 Childbirth (continued)  
Brain Development  Brain Development 
Ch. 4: 118-27  
Ch. 5: 138-43
11 Sept. 29 Brain Development  
Infant Perceptual Abilities
Ch. 5: 138-43 
Ch. 5: 149-53
12 Oct. 1 Piaget & Sensorimotor intelligence Ch. 6: 161-79
13 Oct. 3 Language Development: perception and IDT Characteristics of Infant Directed Talk (IDT)    Functions of IDT  Ch. 6: 184-89 
14 Oct. 6 Language Development: Production  Ch. 6: 180-84
15 Oct. 8 Language production, Infant Emotions Emotions  Ch. 4: 124-26  
Ch. 7: 205-20
16 Oct.10 Temperament, "Bonding" and  
"Attachment"  Attachment Types 
Ch. 7: 205-20
  Oct. 13 Thanksgiving, No Classes  
17 Oct. 15 Attachment cont. Ch. 9: 249-75
18 Oct. 17 Preoperational Thinking, Class discussions,  Interview assignment #2 due 
Characteistics of Preoperational Thought Return Interview assignment #1
 Ch. 9: 249-75
19 Oct. 20 Preoperational Thinking (cont.) 
Review for Midterm,
Chapters 1-7 & 9
20 Oct. 22 Midterm Test:  
Will cover both text and class material
All of Chapters 1-7 & 9
21 Oct. 24 Children's art: Children's drawing  
Howard Gardner 
How Children's Drawings Change 
Ch. 8: 232-33
22 Oct. 27 Self-awareness & Gender socialization 
Self-Recognition 
Gender-Typing
Ch. 10: 277-86
23 Oct. 29 Socialization (gender and other...)  
24 Oct. 31 Parenting styles:  Parenting  
SES Correlates of Parenting  
Poverty in Canada  Risks of being poor
Ch. 10: 286-98
25 Nov. 3 Parenting - continued (sibs, birth order & IQ, changes to the Canadian family)  
The Canadian Family 
26 Nov. 5 Guest lecture: Transgenerational Patterns of Abuse    Prof. Elaine Campbell  
Characteristics of the Abused Child  
Effective Parenting Skills 
Transgenerational Transmission of Abuse
Chapter 8: 233-47
27 Nov. 7 Parenting - continued (SES, divorce, etc.)
28 Nov. 10 School age cognition, Information Processing: Concrete Operational Thought 
Information Processing   
Criticisms of Piaget 
Ch. 12: 325-39
29 Nov. 12 Cultural differences in education  
School rankings
Ch. 12: 340-51
30 Nov. 14 Resiliency / Adolescent biosocial Ch. 14: 385-409 
31 Nov. 17 Adolescent Cognition 
(omitted section on Moral reasoning)
Ch. 15: 411-22
32 Nov. 19 Adolescent Sexuality  
Adolescent Sexual Behaviour  
Bem's Theory of Homosexual Development 
Ch. 15: 425-35
33 Nov. 21 Adolescent Psychosocial 
Identity Formation 
Ch. 16: 437-60
34 Nov. 24 Early Adulthood Cognitive development Ch. 18: 491-496 
& 500-507
35 Nov. 26 Intelligence (Mid adulthood- cog) 
Adult Cognition   Intelligence Quotients   Changes in IQ 
Ch. 21: 565-81
36 Nov. 28 Review for final:  Term Papers due   
Sample Questions
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