Unit DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY
- Course
- Social service
- Study-unit Code
- GP003611
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Aurora Vecchini
- Teachers
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- Aurora Vecchini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Aurora Vecchini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline psicologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-PSI/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The origins of developmental psychology.The current theoretical issues.
- Reference texts
- - Santrock J.W. (2017), Child Development, McGraw-Hill, New York.
- Santrock J.W. (2015), Adolescence, McGraw-Hill, New York.
Choose a book from the following:
- Bronfenbrenner U. (2005), Making human beings human: bio-ecological perspectives on human development, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
- Ferrari P.F., Rizzolatti G. (2015), New frontiers in mirror neurons research, Oxford University Press.
- Hethrington E.m., Blechman E.A. (2016), Stress, coping and resiliency in children and families, Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Kennison S.M. (2014), Introduction to language development, Sage, Los Angeles.
- Santrock J.W. (2014), Life-span Development, McGraw-Hill, New York.
- Sternberg R.J. (2012), International Handbook of inteligence, Cambridge University Press. - Educational objectives
- The main goal is to provide student with knowledge and skills on the topics of the psychology of the development life-span in particular on the corrent scientific approaches multicausal. Such knowledge and skills need to be acquired for a proper comparison between typical and atypical development.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand more effective corse content, it is necessary that the student has same knowledge of general psycology.
- Teaching methods
- All topics of the course will be presented in the classroom with the support of slides. Presentation, reflection and collective discussion on some of the main experiments and some clinical cases.
- Learning verification modality
- Written test
- Extended program
- The nature of child development. Bological processes. Cognition and Language. Social and emotional development. Comparison of typical and atypical development.