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Developmental Psychology 2 - APS100081
Title: Vývojová psychologie 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:written
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (75)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Kamila Urban, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : APS100080
Is pre-requisite for: APS100088
Annotation -
The course covers the basic topics of general and special developmental psychology. They are presented in both lecture and seminar form and supplemented with current research findings and a variety of current practice materials. <br>
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basics of general and special developmental psychology. <br>
Acquired knowledge: The student knows the definitions, history, and main topics of developmental psychology; understands the basic perspectives on individual development. The student masters the characteristics of individual developmental stages (prenatal period, infancy, toddlerhood, preschool age, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood). They can connect this knowledge to specific societal practice issues related to developmental psychology. Furthermore, the student is able to process and present empirical articles assigned to the individual thematic areas <br>
Acquired skills: the student can explain the differences in the overall view of the development of the individual, also with regard to specific problems, can characterize and distinguish individual developmental stages from each other, can apply the acquired knowledge to current problems of social practice; oriented and able to explain the basic positions in dealing with current topics of social practice with regard to the knowledge of developmental psychology (abolition of infant institutions, alternate education, lowering the threshold of criminal responsibility, educational and upbringing issues, etc.) <br>
Course content: childbirth - different approaches to the management of childbirth, the influence of prenatal and perinatal factors. Neonatal period, description of basic reflexes, development of analyzers, early forms of learning, prosocial reactions, mother-infant interaction, needs of the newborn, locomotor development. Infancy, Gesell's developmental laws. Locomotor development, speech and social reactions. Maternal deprivation theory, emotional and social needs, types of parent-infant interaction. The toddler period. Speech development. Fine and gross motor skills, intellectual abilities, progression of socialization. Different conceptions of the socialisation process, or personalisation /individualisation/. Pre-school age - cognitive development from symbolic to demonstrative thinking, internalisation of social norms, roles, meaning of play. Development of moral sense. Issues of school maturity. School age. Its specifics, factors influencing school performance, teacher authority, adaptation to the school environment, cooperation x competition. Pubescence /puberty and puberty/. Timing, biological, psychological and social changes, cognitive development, personality reversals, early sexual experiences, career orientation, life orientation, self-concept. Peer group influence. Adolescence. Early, middle and late adulthood. Specifics, social roles, working and reproductive conditions. Lifestyle, family and its development. Creative activity. Ageing and old age. Evolutionary bio-psycho-social changes. Seminars: Children's drawing. Issues of school success. Adolescence and drugs. Extremely Young Marriages + Surrogate Family Care. Early sexual experiences. Intergenerational conflicts in adolescence. Importance of original family models for mate choice. Today's lifestyles and mental hygiene. Specifics of old age. <br>
Respecting time constraints, discussions and demonstrations of social psychological training techniques will take place. <br>
Last update: Urban Kamila, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (26.09.2024)
Course completion requirements -

Conditions for passing the exam: successful completion of the test, which will consist of the material covered in the lectures + required readings for each topic.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
Literature -

* Required:
Siegler, R.S., Saffran, J., Eisenberg, N., Gershoff, E. (2020). How Children Develop.(6th ed). Worth Publishers. ISBN: 978-1319184568�
Feldman, R. S., & Bishop, J. (2018). development across the life span (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.�
McDevitt, T. M., Ormrod, J. E. (2019). Child development and education. 7th edition. Pearson Higher Education AU.
Required readings for individual lectures will be specified during the course.

* Recommended:
Berger, K. S. (2016). Invitation to the life span. Worth Publishers, Inc. �
Berk, L. E. (2013). child development 9th ed.�
Bornstein, M. H., & Lamb, M. E. (Eds.) (2015). Developmental science: An advanced textbook. Taylor & Francis Group�
Erikson, E. H. Childhood and Society. (1963). New York: W. W. Norton.�
Fingerman, K. L., Berg, C., Smith, J. & Antonucci, T. (2011). Handbook of Lifespan Development. Springer.�
Harris, M. (2008). exploring developmental psychology: understanding theory and methods. Sage.�
Hopkins, B., Geangu, E., & Linkenauger, S. (Eds.) (2017). The Cambridge encyclopedia of child development. Cambridge University Press.�
Hubmann, P. (2017). Child Development: Adaptive Behavior and Biological Embedding. Cuvillier Verlag. �
Jones, N. A., Platt, M., Mize, K. D., & Hardin, J. (2019). Conducting Research in Developmental Psychology. Taylor & Francis Group.�
Richardson, K. (2005). Developmental psychology: How nature and nurture interact. Psychology Press.�
Shiller, V. M. (2017). The attachment bond: Affectional ties across the lifespan. Lexington Books.�
Sigelman, C. K., & Rider, E. A. (2021). life-span human development. Cengage Learning. �
Zittoun, T., Valsiner, J., Gonçalves, M. M., Vedeler, D., Salgado, J., & Ferring, D. (2013). Human development in the life course: Melodies of living. Cambridge University Press.

Last update: Urban Kamila, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (09.10.2024)
 
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