Psychology of human development 1 WF-PS-N-PRC1
Lecture topics:
1. Introduction to the psychology of human development.
2. Basic theories of human development.
3. Research methods in human development psychology.
4. Diagnostic and research tools for different areas of development in childhood and adolescence.
5. Prenatal period: characteristics of changes in particular trimesters of pregnancy.
6. Early childhood - infancy: psychomotor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional development.
7. Early childhood - toddlerhood: psychomotor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional development.
8. Middle childhood /preschool age: psychomotor development, cognitive development, language, and communication, play.
9. Middle childhood /preschool age: socio-emotional development, moral development, personality development.
10. Late childhood/school-age: psychomotor development, cognitive development, language, and communication.
11. Late childhood/school-age: socio-emotional development, moral development, and personality.
12. Adolescence: youth development and life course development, a socio-cultural approach to growing up.
13. Adolescence: cognitive development, morality, identity, development of the value system.
14. Selected forms of supporting the development of children and youth.
15. Material summary.
(in Polish) E-Learning
Learning outcome code/codes
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
- Student understands the specificity of human development psychology
- Student differentiates the main theories of human development and defines basic concepts
- Student has knowledge of various concepts and theories in the field of developmantal psychology, knows how to identify them
- Student knows the basic methods of assessing various areas of human development, knows their theoretical and practical specificity
Skills:
- Student classifies the regularities inscribed in harmonious human development
- Student is able to use techniques to measure various areas in the field of developmantal psychology and to interpret the results
- Student individually describes a given area of human development from the perspective of the theories learned
Competence
- Student is aware of the need to take into account the specificity of diagnostic needs and social and cultural conditions when selecting methods
- Student is aware of the importance to conduct scientific research or diagnosis in accordance with the ethical norms
ECTS description:
lecture attendance - 30 h
seminar attendance - 15 h
preparation for lectures - 10 h
preparation for seminar - 20 h
consultations - 5 h
preparation for exams - 40 h
Total hours: 120 [120/30(25)=4]
ECTS number: 4
Assessment criteria
Assessment method:
Written exam in the form of a test. The basis for passing the test is obtaining 60% of correct answers.
Assessment criteria:
for grade 5: the student has acquired and understands very well the
the role of psychological processes and the directions of their development; the student is very well versed in diagnostic tools enabling the assessment of various areas of psychological functioning of children and adolescents
for grade 4: the student has acquired and understands well the
the role of psychological processes and the directions of their development; the student is well versed in diagnostic tools enabling the assessment of various areas of psychological functioning of children and adolescents
for grade 3: the student has acquired and understands sufficiently the
the role of psychological processes and the directions of their development; the student is sufficiently versed in diagnostic tools enabling the assessment of various areas of psychological functioning of children and adolescents
for grade 2: the student has not acquired and does not understand the
the role of psychological processes and the directions of their development; the student is not versed in diagnostic tools enabling the assessment of various areas of psychological functioning of children and adolescents
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
Mandatory literature:
Trempała J. (2011) (red.). Psychologia rozwoju człowieka. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. (rozdziały: 1-10, 18).
Czerwińska-Jasiewicz M. (2015). Psychologia rozwoju młodzieży w kontekście biegu ludzkiego życia. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe DIFIN. (rozdziały: 1-13).
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