USYD PSYC3016 (Developmental Psychology) 2025 – Complete SAQ Evidence Tables & Lecture Summary Portfolio

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That one thing you need to pass this unit ! These notes are a 77-page, colour-coded evidence table pack for the entire PSYC3016 Developmental Psychology unit (L01–L26), designed so you can walk straight into any SAQ and build a full-mark answer from studies, stats and theory in seconds. Instead of raw lecture dumps, every lecture is re-engineered into coherent matrices with columns for Study/Paradigm, Authors & Year, Age/Population, Method, Key Finding, Statistical Detail, Theory Link, and a punchy “Memorisable Sentence” that functions as your first sentence in an exam paragraph. Each block ends with a bold “CONSOLIDATE” row that integrates the evidence into the learning outcomes and shows you exactly how to argue it in an SAQ. The notes are built from lectures, tutorials and key readings ( Burt’s twin meta-analysis, Farah on poverty & brain, Belsky & Pluess differential susceptibility, MAOA “warrior gene”, Turkheimer, epigenetics, social-cognition and infant-cognition classics etc.), but everything is rewritten in my own words into exam-ready tables and one-liners – not copied lecture slides, not assignments, and no exam questions. The layout is optimised for short-answer and essay revision: every study sits next to its stats, mechanism, and “exam hook” so you can see, at a glance, which numbers to memorise and how to link them to theory, mechanisms and clinical or policy implications. -x- Topics / contents covered (full semester): L01 – Introduction to Developmental Psychology: developmental trajectories, periods of rapid change, theory of mind emergence, assessment architecture, research methods. L02 – Nature vs Nurture: heritability, P = G + E, SNPs, GWAS, SES & brain, MAOA, conduct problems, five myths about genes & environment. L03 – Behaviour Genetics I: Twin Studies: MZ vs DZ logic, ACE/ADE models, Falconer’s formula, Burt (2009) meta-analysis across disorders, parenting mechanisms. L04 – Behaviour Genetics II: Interactions & Epigenetics: missing heritability, phenotype precision, mediation vs moderation, G×E, epigenetic mechanisms. L05 – Social Cognition I: self-recognition, empathy, goal understanding, early social referencing and contagion studies. L06 – Social Cognition II – Theory of Mind: classic false-belief tasks, ToM onset, autism vs typical development, experimental paradigms. L07 – Social Cognition III – Advanced ToM: second-order ToM, sarcasm, faux pas, complex social reasoning. L08 – Moral Development I: Kohlberg, Turiel, moral vs conventional rules, early prosocial behaviour and fairness. L09 – Moral Development II: guilt, shame, empathy, harm vs purity, cultural differences, real-world moral decision studies. L10 – Abnormal Development: developmental psychopathology, risk vs resilience, trajectories, comorbidity, models of disorder. L11 – Adolescent Development: brain changes, reward systems, risk taking, peer influence, juvenile justice angles. L12 – Adult–Child Interaction: parenting styles, scaffolding, language input, interaction quality and cognitive outcomes. L13 – Juvenile Justice Systems: culpability, maturity, legal thresholds, neuroscientific evidence and policy. L14 – Classic Theories of Cognitive Development: Piaget, Vygotsky, information-processing approaches, strengths and critiques. L15–L17 – Infant Cognition I–III: object permanence, number, physical reasoning, core knowledge vs learning, key habituation / looking-time paradigms. L18 – Abstract Relational Learning: analogy, same–different relations, higher-order cognitive mechanisms. L19 – Abstract Relational Learning Beyond Infancy: how relational thinking develops into childhood and adolescence. L20 – Thinking During Play: play types, pretend play, causal learning through play, cognitive benefits. L21 – Executive Functions: working memory, inhibition, shifting, EF tasks and developmental trajectories. L22 – Language Development I: phonology, word learning, early grammar, input vs innate mechanisms. L23–L24 – Language Development II & III: syntax debates, nativist vs usage-based theories, key experimental evidence. L25–L26 – Culture & Conceptual Development: WEIRD vs non-WEIRD, cultural learning, conceptual categories across cultures. -x- Key features: Whole-unit coverage: all lectures and major tutorial/reading content combined into a single, navigable file (no hunting across random PDFs). SAQ-first design: every row ends with an exam sentence that can be memorised and dropped straight into SAQs or essays. Evidence + stats + theory glued together: you see which numbers to memorise and why they matter for the argument. Colour-coded layout: each lecture cluster is visually separated so you can cram by topic or by week. No assignments, no exam questions, no copied slides: everything is original synthesis designed purely for learning and revision. -x- If you want a single, high-yield document that turns PSYC3016 into a set of ready-made SAQ blueprints, this is it. -xoxo-