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Dec 11, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [PAST CATALOG]
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PSY 205 - Child Psychology3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term. Learn about cognitive, physical, social and emotional development from infancy through pre-adolescence. Study theories of child development and research methods used to study it. Learn about conception and the prenatal period and its influence on later development.
Prerequisite(s): PSY 111 or PSY 111H or permission of department chair.
Note: Also offered as PSY 205H; credit is not given for both PSY 205 and PSY 205H. Typically offered at MC and OL; fall, spring, and summer terms.
Course Outcomes:
- Explain the research methods used by behavioral scientists to study human development.
- Identify the principal differences among current theories of human growth and development.
- Identify basic genetic concepts, and the mechanisms of gene-environment interactions.
- Identify processes and milestones related to conception, prenatal development, and delivery.
- Identify the major developmental milestones at each stage of life from infancy through the end of childhood.
- Explain the ways in which different domains of development - biological, sociocultural, emotional and cognitive - influence each other throughout infancy and childhood.
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