IIE 366: Developmental Psychology
Summer 2008
MTWTh 12:40 pm-2:20 pm
Annex Hall, Room 311
Breaking news
- 6 August 2008: Final course grades are available. You can pick up the third exam at tomorrow's lecture, during office hours, or at 3:00 pm Thursday afternoon (at my office). You can also submit the last homework at tomorrow's lecture (however, I don't think it will change anyone's grade to do so).
- 1 August 2008: Lecture notes for lecture 35 are available for download.
- 31 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 33 and 34 are available for download.
- 29 July 2008: Lecture notes for lecture 32 are available for download.
- 27 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 25 through 31 are available for download.
- 26 July 2008: Grades through the second exam are available. This does not yet include the second homework.
- 21 July 2008: There is a practice exam for the second exam available for download on the schedule.
- 17 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 23 and 24 are available for download.
- 16 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 18-22 are available for download.
- 15 July 2008: Grades through the first exam are available.
- 10 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 14-17 are available for download.
- 9 July 2008: There is a practice exam for the first exam available for download on the schedule.
- 8 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 12 and 13 are available for download.
- 7 July 2008: Lecture notes for lectures 9-11 are available for download.
- 1 July 2008: The ISC has the textbook. They will have a copy available in the main library. Hopefully it will be available by tomorrow. If someone sees that the copy is available, please let me know.
- 1 July 2008: There are no lecture notes for Lecture 3. We will go through a tour of basic genetics. You can see the tour at http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/tour/.
Professor
I check my email frequently, feel free to use it for questions and setting up appointments. If you cannot make my office hours, we can schedule for another time.
Course description
This course traces child development from conception through adolescence. The course is organized around psychological topics, including the genetic and biological bases of human development, the growth of perceptual and motor skills, intellectual development, and finally social and emotional development. The main goal is for you to become familiar with current knowledge of the psychological development of infants, children, and adolescents. You should also become familiar with the methods used by the researchers who generated this knowledge and ways in which this knowledge is applied to improve children's lives.
Text
Kail, Robert V. (2007). Children and Their Development (4th edition). Prentice Hall. 
ISBN-10: 0-13-194911-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-194911-9
Book website: http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=013194911X
IMPORTANT: Students are responsible for obtaining their own copy of the textbook, which is available from the publisher at the web site above and at amazon.com, half.com, and possibly in bookstores. There is a paperback study guide, but this is optional and cannot function as a replacement for the text. There is an electronic version of the textbook that is about half the price of the hard copy. I am not sure whether this will work in Korea.
Class notes
Class notes will be available on the web (see below). The notes are reduced in size so that six slides fit on a single page.
Class home page
The home page for this course is http://www.psych.purdue.edu/~gfrancis/Classes/IIE366/index.html From this page you can download lecture notes, view the class schedule, view current grades, and view homework assignments.
Class format
The class style is mostly lecture. The lectures are intended to supplement the book. You should get a lot of material by carefully reading and studying the textbook.
Requirements
In the compressed time frame of this course, everything must be done in its assigned time. Missed lectures, missed exams and missed deadlines are very serious matters from which one might not be able to recover successfully. Any requirement that is not completed on time is subject to a score of zero.
Exams
There will be three exams. Each exam is worth 25% of the total grade. Each exam will consist of 50 multiple-choice questions (20 from lectures, 30 from the text). The exams will not be cumulative.
Homework
There are three homework assignments. All together, these assignments make up 25% of your class grade. The assignment must be handed to the professor at the beginning of class on the day indicated in the schedule (below). Follow the links in the schedule for details about each homework assignment. These assignments require advance planning, so start early!
Attendance and Conduct
Students are responsible for knowing and adhering to all applicable Korea University and International Summer Campus policies, including attendance policies and the Honor Code. Adherence to these policies will be closely monitored, and violations will be punished as provided in the relevant policies.
Schedule
In the following table, clicking on a No. link will download a copy of the lecture notes for that class. The class lectures are in portable document format (pdf). You can view them with a pdf viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is probably already installed on university computers and is available for free at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
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SCHEDULE
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| No. | Date | Topic | Reading | Homework |
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| 01 | July 1 | Introduction | | |
| 02 | | Research strategies and themes | Chapter 1 | |
| 03 | July 2 | Basics of genetics | | |
| 04 | | Basics of genetics | | |
| 05 | July 3 | Genetic bases of development | Chapter 2 | |
| 06 | | Nature vs. nurture | | |
| 07 | July 7 | Prenatal development, newborn | Chapter 3 | |
| 08 | | Labor and delivery | | |
| 09 | July 8 | Growth | Chapter 4 | |
| 10 | | Health | | |
| 11 | July 9 | Perceptual development | Chapter 5 | Maternal interview |
| 12 | | Attention development | | |
| 13 | July 10 | Motor development | | |
| Practice exam | | Review for exam | | |
| -- | July 14 | SECTION EXAM I | | |
| 14 | July 15 | Theories of development | Chapter 6 | |
| 15 | | Piaget | | |
| 16 | July 16 | Cognitive development | Chapter 7 | |
| 17 | | Memory | | | |
| 18 | July 17 | Intelligence | Chapter 8 | |
| 19 | | Individual differences | | |
| 20 | July 21 | Language basics | | |
| 21 | | Language development | Chapter 9 | |
| 22 | July 22 | Special types of language | | Focus on research: False memories |
| 23 | | Emotions | Chapter 10 | |
| 24 | July 23 | Emotions | | |
| Practice exam | | Review for exam | | |
| -- | July 24 | SECTION EXAM II | | |
| 25-26 | July 28 | Sense of self | | |
| | | Sense of self | | |
| 27 | July 29 | Understanding self and others | Chapter 11 | |
| 28 | | Moral understanding | Chapter 12 | |
| 29 | July 30 | Aggression | | |
| 30 | | Gender | Chapter 13 | |
| 31 | July 31 | Gender | | |
| 32 | | Family | Chapter 14 | |
| 33 | August 4 | Parenting | | |
| 34 | | Influences outside the family | Chapter 15 | |
| 35 | August 5 | Friends | | Applying Child-Development Research |
| SG3 | | Review for exam | | |
| -- | August 6 | SECTION EXAM III | | |
| 36 | August 7 | Current topics | | |