EDST 102: Developmental Psychology

This course is an introduction to the theories and findings in developmental psychology. It covers the period of early childhood, but discussion will often extend to older children and adults. The course will cover attachment, pretense and imagination, theory of mind/autism, language and thought, memory, moral development, emotion and emotion understanding, vocabulary growth, cross-cultural variation in relationships and thinking, trust in others' testimony, thinking and reasoning, and religious development. An important goal is to allow students to examine for themselves not just the conclusions that psychologists have reached about development but also some of the experiments and observations that have led to those conclusions.