Developmental Core - readings

 

Syllabus, Post your question, Exam handouts


Important dates: Exam 1 handout 31st Jan, due 4th Feb; Exam 2 handout 28th Feb due 3rd March

 

 

Topic

Instructor

Siegler chapter

Readings

1.  Tuesday, January 15

Overview of issues

Klahr

Chapter 1

Case

2.  Thursday, January 17

Methods

Rakison

Field

3.   Tuesday, January 22

Piaget and Information processing

Siegler

Chapter 2

Flavell, Fischer & Hencke, Gopnik

4.   Thursday, January 24

Piaget and Information processing

Siegler

Chapter 3

Munakata

5.   Tuesday, January 29

Perceptual and conceptual development

Rakison

Chapter 4

Johnson et al, Spelke & Kinzler

6.   Thursday, January 31

Perceptual and conceptual development

Rakison

Chapter 7

Mandler, Haith

7.   Tuesday, February 5

Language development

Thiessen

Chapter 6

Thiessen (in press), McClelland and Patterson (2002)

8.   Thursday, February 7

Language development

Thiessen

 

Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996)

9.   Tuesday, February 12

Modeling development

Kemp

Chapter 3

Elman (2005), Gopnik and Tenenbaum (2007)

10. Thursday, February 14

Modeling development

Kemp

 

Meeden & Blank, Kuipers et al.

11. Tuesday, February 19

Developmental Neuroscience

Pelphrey

 

Johnson, Pelphrey & Perlman, Table for P & P

12. Thursday, February 21

Developmental Neuroscience

Pelphrey

 

Munakata, Casey, and Diamond (2004), Cantlon

13.  Tuesday, February 26

Cognitive development and science education

Klahr

Chapter 11

Duschl, Schweingruber, & Shouse, Chp 2

14. Thursday, February 28

Cognitive development and science education

Klahr

 

Klahr & Li