What kind of abilities has a newborn got ? What allows children to learn to speak ? Is it possible to stimulate social skills ? Over time, in the field of the developmental and educational psychology, many knowledge about developmental change have been acquired. The study of this discipline is an essential help for those who want to support the development of the person in the space of life.
The course aims to provide a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of development processes and to provide knowledge about the processes and mechanisms underlying the psychological development and about the factors that influence it.
Lectures (interspersed with presentations of films and materials), group discussions, exercises in small groups.
The lessons presented slides will be made available on aulaweb .
The program includes: the definition of the discipline, the history of the discipline, the main theoretical approaches, methods of investigation, the knowledge gained up to now with respect to the psychological development throughout life (concerning the somatic and motor, the perceptual, the cognitive, the linguistic and communicative, the moral, the social and emotional domains), with particular attention to childhood.
Santrock J.W. (2017) Psicologia dello sviluppo. Terza edizione. McGraw Hill.
A text chosen from the book's list in aulaweb.
Ricevimento: Please send an email to laura.traverso@unige.it to fix an appointment.
FRANCESCA LAGOMARSINO (President)
VALERIA SILVIA PANDOLFINI
LAURA TRAVERSO (President Substitute)
CHIARA LANINI (Substitute)
Second semester
Examination in attendance:
Written exam including multiple choise questions and open questions.
Online examination:
Written (muliple choise questions) and oral exam.
After this course, useful knowledge must be acquired to describe: what skills characterize us in the various life stages (eg such as perceptual abilities of a newborn), how do we change (for example, how do we develop language and communication skills?), which scientists have been involved in investigating the different aspects of development (for example, who introduced the idea of zone of proximal development?) and what theories have been formulated with respect to why we change (for example, the different theories concerning the cognitive development). The student should have acquired the ability to use this knowledge to understand a real situation that may be proposed or to envisage how to act in it (for example, you're in a Nursery School, with weaned children, which stimuli do you think it is useful to propose and why).
The written test consists of a series of multiple-choice questions ( to be done at the computer ) and two open questions.
The oral text comprehends at least three questions.
