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Nov 24, 2024
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2022-2023 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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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, and social-emotional development. 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 .
General Education Competency: Written Communication
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Transactional Model of child development
- 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 contexts. (1,2,4,7)
- Explain the importance of attachment as the foundation for child development throughout childhood. (2-8)
- Describe major developmental themes (e.g. nature-nurture, stability and change, early - late experiences, and continuity - discontinuity) as applied to child development theories. (2-7)
- Evaluate major theories of child development as applied to periods of childhood 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, and community 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 research methods applied to various theoretical perspectives of child development. (1-8)
- Develop course signature assignments (observational research) reflecting course specific NAEYC core standard(s), posting same in teacher portfolio. (1-8)
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