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Infant and Early Childhood Cognition

Subjects: Psychology · Science

Art: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Cajal - a purkinje neuron from the human cerebellum, circa 1900 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Laura Schulz
Term: Fall 2012
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 27 other files · 2 web pages
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Infant and Early Childhood Cognition

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Lecture 1: Introduction—philosophical questions, psychological methods (PDF)

Lecture 2: Theoretical perspectives in developmental psychology: Piaget (PDF)

Lecture 3: Theoretical perspectives post-Piaget (PDF - 1.5MB)

Lecture 4: Methods (cont.) and perception (PDF)

Lecture 5: Perception (cont.) and object knowledge (PDF - 1.1MB)

Lecture 6: Objects and number (PDF - 1.4MB)

Lecture 7: Statistical reasoning in infancy (PDF - 1.6MB)

Lecture 8: Computational models of cognitive development courtesy of Julian Jara-Ettinger (PDF - 1.9MB) Supplementary notes courtesy of Julian Jara-Ettinger (PDF) Spatial navigation courtesy of Max Siegel (PDF - 1.3MB)

Lecture 9: Concepts: From definitions to features to theories (PDF)

Lecture 10: Causal knowledge in infancy and early childhood (PDF - 1.4MB)

Lecture 11: The perception of agency and goal-directed action in infancy; agency and attachment (PDF - 1.9MB)

Lecture 12: Attachment (cont.) and representational theory of mind (PDF - 1.3MB)

Lecture 13: Theory of mind (cont.) and autism (PDF - 1.4MB)

Lecture 14: Word learning (PDF - 1.3MB)

Lecture 15: Language courtesy of Melissa Kline and Kim Scott (PDF - 1.2MB)

Lecture 16: Moral reasoning (PDF - 1.7MB)