Psy 210 Outline

Psy 210 Outline

Developmental Psychology

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Instructor: Alexis Kennedy

Office: Room 3055

Office Hours: Monday 5 - 6 p.m. or by email arrangement

Email: alexis.kennedy@utoronto.ca

T.A.s: Emis Mohebat (emis@psych.utoronto.ca)

Jodi Pawluski (jodi@psych.utoronto.ca)

Class Time: Monday 6 - 9 p.m.

Text: Kail, Robert V. (2001). Children and their development (2^nd ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Note: It is your responsibility to ensure that you meet all prerequisite requirements for this course as listed in the Erindale College Calendar. If you lack any prerequisites for this course, the Department may cancel your registration at any time.

The final mark in this course will be based on:

1) Two 90-minute in-class tests (25%). Tests will include multiple choice, short answer and essay questions based both upon the text readings, lecture materials and videos. See the outline provided below for test dates.

2) One 120-minute final exam (40%) to be scheduled during the December exam period. This exam will be cumulative but will focus primarily on material covered after the November 11^th test. The exam will include multiple choice, short answer and essay questions based upon the text readings, lecture material and videos.

3) One 3-5 page written assignment (10%). This assignment will be described during class time and is due on November 25^th. Assignments handed in late will lose 5% per day (including weekend days) unless accompanied by a medical note.

Date	Week	Lecture	Text
September 9	1	Introduction to Developmental Psychology & Research Issues	Chapter 1
September 17	2	Genetic Bases of Development Prenatal development, birth and the newborn	Chapter 2 Chapter 3
September 23	3	Physical and motor development	Chapter 4
September 30	4	Sensory & perceptual development	Chapter 5
October 7	5	TEST 1 (1 and ½ hours, covering classes 1-4 & chapters 1-5) Piagets stages, limitations and recent research	Chapter 6
October 14	6	THANKSGIVING NO CLASS
October 21	7	Information-Processing Approaches to Cognitive development	Chapter 7
October 28	8	Intelligence	Chapter 8
November 4	9	Language development	Chapter 9
November 11	10	TEST 2 (1 and ½ hours, covering classes 5-9 & chapters 6-9) Emotional Development	Chapter 10
November 18	11	Social development Moral development	Chapter 11 Chapter 12
November 25	12	ASSIGNMENT DUE Parenting and abuse	Chapter 14
December 5	13	Peers & Media Gender development	Chapter 15 Chapter 13

Departmental Policy on Missed Tests and Extensions:

All requests for make-up tests and extended time to submit term work beyond the last day of classes must be submitted on a special form (obtained from the Psychology Office, Rm. 2037B) to the Psychology Program Coordinator, Rm. 2075 within one week. Make-up tests will be written in a supervised context on specified predetermined dates. Further information about this procedure is available in the undergraduate handbook on the WWW at: http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3psypro/handbook/indexhandbook.html

If you submit medical documentation make sure it contains the statement "This student was unable to write the test (or submit term work by the last day of classes, if applicable) on (date) for medical reasons". You are advised to see your physician within one day of the missed test. Many physicians will not provide documentation retroactively.

ASSIGNMENT DUE