PSYC3341 Developmental Psychology HD Notes

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PSYC3341 - Developmental Psychology - Overall Mark: 86 (HD) - Mid-term exam mark: 97 - Final exam mark: 92 Includes lecture notes for weeks 1-10 and notes on examinable readings. Topics covered in lecture notes include (pages 1-70): Children's theory of mind, children's understanding of causality, childhood amnesia, eliciting early memories, prenatal brain development, developmental plasticity, early experience and later development, memory flexibility, motor development, suggestibility and children's eyewitness memory, children's symbol use, the development of inductive reasoning, ecological approach to perceptual development, social cognition and adolescence. Readings that notes include are (pages 71-79): - Simcock and Hayne, 2003 - Quinn et al. (2020): Emotional Expressions Reinstate Recognition of Other-Race Faces in Infants Following Perceptual Narrowing. - Wade et al. (2019): Long term effects of institutional rearing, foster care and brain activity on memory and executive functioning. - Rocha-Hidalgo et al. (2022): Imitating the Robots: Measuring Memory Flexibility with Monolingual and Bilingual Pre-schoolers. - Karasik et al. (2023): Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development. - Becoming symbol-minded. - Johnson et al. (2023): Characterizing Alcohol Expectancies in the ABCD Study: Associations with Sociodemographic Factors, the Immediate Social Environment, and Genetic Propensities