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Students are required to submit three critical response papers, each based on an assigned course reading of their choosing. Critical response papers may be submitted at any point during the course of the term.


LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introduction
2Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Psychology I: Piaget
3Theoretical Perspectives II: Post-Piaget
4Magic Tricks and Methods
5What's it Like to be a Baby? Perceptual Foundations
6Object Concepts
7Number and Object Individuation
8Object Labels and Object Knowledge
9Concepts, Categories and InductionResearch proposal due
10Identity, Essences and Transformation
11Recognizing Agents
12Understanding Goals and Intentions

Hooppell Guest Lecture: Spatial Reasoning
13Appearance and Reality
14Imagination and Pretend Play
15Representational Theory of MindLiterature review draft due
16Theory of Mind and Word Learning

Baby Talk
17Baraff-Bonowitz Guess Lecture: Language, Culture, and Thought
18Autism
19Recognizing Causal Transformations

Intervening - Tools Use, Means-end Reasoning

Causation, Categorization, and Counterfactuals
20Statistical Learning in Infancy
21Means-ends Reasoning

Tool Use
22Causal Reasoning 1: Explanation, Prediction, Intervention and Counterfactuals
23Causal Reasoning 2: Assumptions, Theories, and Evidence
24Conceptual Change
25Children and Social PolicyFinal paper due

 








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