PSY340

028495

In this course you will learn how young children learn to think, starting in infancy and extending into early and middle childhood, along with theories and experimental methods used to study cognitive development. For example, you will learn about the negative effects of early media exposure, how children learn to take another person's perspective, that infants and toddlers understand much more than they can say, about the development of self-control, the reliability of children's eyewitness testimony, surprising ideas children have about the size of themselves and their toys, how well we can predict children's school performance from tests of basic cognitive processes, how children \"learn\" to learn, and the effect of culture on the developing mind.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

WE - WEC (Writing Emphasis Course)

PSY 101 or PSY 150A1.