Lesson n. 1: Introduction to Course
Understanding knowledge and learning
Transition experiences in learning
Dualism
Multiplicity
Relativism
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Lesson n. 2: Pre-natal and post-natal development (Part I)
Stages of pre-natal development
What can go wrong
Developmental disabilities
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Lesson n. 3: Pre-natal and post-natal development (Part II)
Prospective studies
Organismic models
Prospective studies in organismic models
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Lesson n. 4: Pre-natal and post-natal development (Part III)
Factors that can influence child development
Other factors
ADHD
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Lesson n. 5: The world of the new born (Part I)
Empiricism or Innatism
The neonatal behavioral assessment scale
Emotional response, turning toward sounds, coping responses
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Lesson n. 6: The world of the new born (Part II)
Helping parents with their child
Organismic process
Independent and variables in research
Dependent variables
Conclusions
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Lesson n. 7: The world of the new born (Part III)
Motor development
Video explaining motor characteristics in infants
Comments on video and related theories
Summing up
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Lesson n. 8: Perceptual development (Part I)
How perception of depth works
The Gibsoninan view
Invariant property and affordance
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Lesson n. 9: Perceptual development (Part II)
Are senses integrated or independent at birth
Methods of perception
Looking and reaching
Looking and listening
Looking and touching
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Lesson n. 10: Perceptual development (Part III)
Infant depth perception
Objects behind other objects
Moving the body through space
Visual proprioception
The visual cliff
Summing up
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Lesson n. 11: Cognitive Development - Piaget's theory (Part I)
What is thinking in Piaget's view
Accommodation and assimilation
Equilibration
What does thinking develop from
Stages
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Lesson n. 12: Cognitive Development - Piaget's theory (Part II)
Sensory motor intelligence
Sensory motor stages
Experiment
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Lesson n. 13: Cognitive Development - Piaget's theory (Part III)
Pre-operational intelligence
Concrete operational intelligence
Formal operational intelligence
Evaluation of Piaget's theory
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Lesson n. 14: Language development (Part I)
Four aspects of language
The meanings of words
The classical idea
The modern idea
How the children learn the meanings of words
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Lesson n. 15: Language development (Part II)
Semantic features hypothesis and its problems
The current view: the prototype theory
The rules for sentences
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Lesson n. 16: Language development (Part III)
The rules for sentences (continued)
How do children lear the rules to make sentences
Surface and deep Structure of a sentence
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Lesson n. 17: Moral development (Part I)
Components of moral behavior
Component 1: Interpretation
Component 2: knowledge
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Lesson n. 18: Moral development (Part II)
Component 2: knowledge (conitnued)
Moral reasoning, relativism and formal operations
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Lesson n. 19: Social-emotional development: attachment (Part I)
Freudian theory
Learning theory
Bowlby's theory
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Lesson n. 20: Social-emotional development: attachment (Part II)
Bowlby's theory (continued)
Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation
Video of SSP
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Lesson n. 21: Social-emotional development: attachment (Part III)
Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation (continued)
Modern research
Prof. Fabricius' perspective
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