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PSYC 450

Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Autism
  • Brain
  • Learning
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Autism
  • Learning
Winter 2023

Topics

  • conceptual understandings, even before very much learning can take place. 󰓃ese ”na ̈ıve”
  • Child development

Readings

  • Listed material: 1. Vosniadou, S & Brewer, W. F. (1992). Mental models of the Earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 535–585.
  • Listed material: 2. Margolis, E. & Laurence, S. (2022). Concepts. In E. N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.). 󰓃e Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. h󰿣ps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/concepts.
  • Listed material: 3. Medin, D. L. & Atran, S. (2004). 󰓃e native mind: Biological categorization and reasoning in development across cultures. Psychological Review, 111, 960–983.
  • Listed material: 4. Sarnecka, B. W. (2016). How numbers are like the earth (and unlike faces, loitering or kni󰿣ing). In D. Barner & A. S. Baron (Eds.) Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change, (pp. 151–170). New York: Oxford.
  • Listed material: 5. Smith, C. L. (2007). Bootstrapping processes in the development of students’ common sense ma󰿣er theories: Using analogical mappings, thought experiments and learning to measure to promote conceptual restructuring. Cognition and Instruction, 25, 337–398.
  • Listed material: 6. Legare, C. H. (2012). Exploring explanation: Explaining inconsistent information informs exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior in young children. Child Development, 83, 173–185. Stahl, A. E. & Feigenson, L. (2017). Expectancy violations promote learning in young children. Cognition, 163, 1–14. 5
  • Listed material: 7. Ronfard, S., Brown, S., Doncaster, E., & Kelemen, D. (2022). Inhibiting intuition: Sca󰎎olding children’s theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations. Cognition, 211, e104635.
  • Listed material: 8. Bonawitz, E. B., van Schijndel, T. J. P., Friel, D., & Schulz, L. (2012). Children balance theories and evidence in exploration, explanation, and learning. Cognitive Psychology, 64, 215–234.
  • Listed material: 9. Tardi󰎎, N., Bascandiziev, I., Carey, S., & Zaitchik, D. (2020). Specifying the domain-general resources that contribute to conceptual construction: Evidence from the child’s acquisition of vitalist biology. Cognition, 195, e104090.
  • Listed material: 10. Shtulman, A. & Lombrozo, T. (2016). Bundles of contradiction: A coexistence view of conceptual change. In D. Barner & A. S. Baron (Eds.) Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change, (pp. 53–72). New York: Oxford. 6
Fall 2022

Topics

  • Development

Readings

  • Listed material: Due 1 9/6 Intro
  • Listed material: 3 9/20 History Orben (2020)
Winter 2020

Topics

  • What is Anxiety? Part 1 (Jan. 16)
  • Buss et al. (2019) Theories of Emotional Development
  • Pollak et al. (2019) Progress in Understanding the Emergence of Human Emotion
  • What is Anxiety? Part 2 (Jan. 23)
  • Corr (2011) Anxiety: Splitting the phenomenological atom
  • Boyer & Bergstrom (2011) Threat-detection in child development: An evolutionary perspective
  • Pergamin-Hight et al. (2015). Content specificity of attention bias to threat in anxiety disorders
  • Morales & Fox (2019) A Neuroscience Perspective on Emotional Development
  • Lonigan et al. (2004) Temperament, Anxiety, and the Processing of Threat-Relevant Stimuli
  • Shimada‐Sugimoto et al. (2015). Genetics of anxiety disorders
  • Marks (1987). The development of normal fear
  • Brooker et al. (2013). The development of stranger fear in infancy and toddlerhood
  • Möller et al. (2016). Associations between maternal and paternal parenting behaviors, anxiety
  • Aktar et al. (2017). Environmental transmission of generalized anxiety disorder from parents
  • Adolescence and Outlines (Feb. 27)
  • Allan et al. (2016). Longitudinal investigation of anxiety sensitivity growth trajectories and
  • Matthews et al (2016) Emotional Competence and Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence
  • Norr et al. (2015). Anxiety sensitivity as a mechanism for gender discrepancies in anxiety
  • Granic & Lougheed (2016). The role of anxiety in coercive family processes with aggressive
  • Regulating Anxiety (Mar. 12)
  • Perkins & Corr (2014) Anxiety as Adaptive Emotion
  • Campbell-Sills & Barlow (2007). Incorporating emotion regulation into
  • Gu et al. (2015). How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress
  • reduction improve mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of
  • Schoneveld et al. (2018). Preventing childhood anxiety disorders: Is an applied game as
  • case for cultural differences in coping with negative emotion
  • Jensen et al. (2019). Young Adolescents’ Digital Technology Use and Mental Health Symptoms
  • Attachment
  • Problem solving
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Lifespan
Fall 2020

Topics

  • Adolescence
  • Brain
  • Neuroscience
  • Learning
  • Development
  • Critical thinking
  • Research design

Readings

  • Listed material: There is no textbook in this class. Instead, you will be asked to read 1-3 articles each week.
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