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May 15, 2024
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Preliminary 2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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PSY 234 - Child Development
Description: Exploration of children's development from conception through adolescence, assuming a transactional approach to understanding development focusing on family relationships, brain development, social/emotional development, and the role of culture in child development. Examination of major developmental themes and theories of child development utilizing scientific methods of inquiry and viewed through a cultural lense. Risk and protective factors are analyzed with respect to the interplay of attachment, brain development, and social-emotional development. Developmental periods include prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, preschool years, middle childhood, and adolescence, with an examination of biological influences, cognition, behavioral characteristics, social interaction, and cultural resources typified at each developmental period. This course requires 5 face-to-face observation hours in early childhood and elementary settings. This course is cross-listed with ECE 234 .
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Transactional model of child development, including the role of culture
- Attachment and child development
- Brain development determinants
- Risk and protective factors
- Physical development processes
- Cognitive and language development processes
- Social development processes
- Integrated domains of emotional regulation
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the transactional model of child development with respect to the interplay of nature and nurture within social and cultural contexts. (1, 2, 4, 7)
- Explain the importance of attachment as the foundation for child development throughout childhood. (2-8)
- Describe major developmental themes applied to child development theories as viewed through various cultural lenses. (2-7)
- Evaluate major theories of child development as applied to periods of childhood development while respecting the diversity of human development. (3-8)
- Examine the interplay of physical, cognitive, emotional and social development throughout childhood developmental periods. (3-7)
- Identify the differential effects of parents, family, peers, teachers, community, culture, and historical context on child development. (2-8)
- Analyze the transactional relationship of attachment, risk and protective factors, brain development, and social-emotional development throughout childhood. (1-4, 7, 8)
- Summarize scientific methods of inquiry applied to various theoretical perspectives of child development. (1-8)
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