Psychology of human development WSR-NRN-1-PRC
1. Introduction to the psychology of human development: basic theories and research methods in human development psychology.
2. Prenatal period: characteristics of changes in particular trimesters of pregnancy.
3. Early childhood - infancy and toddlerhood: psychomotor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional development.
4. Middle childhood /preschool age: psychomotor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional development, moral development, personality development, language, and communication, play.
5. Late childhood/school-age: psychomotor development, cognitive development, socio-emotional development, moral development, and personality, language, and communication.
6. Adolescence: cognitive development, morality, identity, development of the value system.
(in Polish) E-Learning
Term 2023/24_Z: (in Polish) E-Learning | Term 2020/21_L: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) |
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcome code/codes
Type of subject
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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:
seminar attendance - 18 h
seminar preparation - 20 h
preparation for exam - 14 h
consultations - 2 h
Total hours: 54 [54/18=3]
ECTS number: 3
Assessment criteria
Assessment method:
Written exam in the form of a test.
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).
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