Learning Outcomes

Developmental introduction and learning outcomes.pptx

General framework (applicable to all topics in the option-even for level 1 and 2 command terms)

•To what extent do biological, cognitive and sociocultural factors influence human development?

•Evaluate psychological research (that is, theories and/or studies) relevant to developmental psychology.

Cognitive development

•Evaluate theories of cognitive development (for example, Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky, brain development theories).

Student presentations

•Discuss how social and environmental variables (for example, parenting, educational environment, poverty, diet) may affect cognitive development.

Social and environmental variables student notes.docx

Social development
•Examine attachment in childhood and its role in the subsequent formation of relationships.

Attachment in childhood formation of relationships.docx

Attachment theory homework.pdf

Background on Bowlby and Ainsworth.pptx

Overview of strange situation.ppt

Cross cultural attachment studies.ppt

•Discuss potential effects of deprivation or trauma in childhood on later development.

Read about Harlow's monkeys

Effects of deprivation and trauma.docx