The following topics are covered: Infant reflexes; and Social development during the first year of life including the social smile and onset of fear of strangers.
The following topics are covered: Imprinting; Attachment (Bowlby) including cross-cultural studies; Harlow and surrogate mothers; and Relevance of animal studies in child development.
The following topics are covered: Maternal deprivation; Implications of theories of attachment and maternal deprivation when placing children with surrogates.
The following topics are covered: Group vs. family care and studies of effects of maternal employment and father absent families; and Importance of peers and siblings.
The following topics are covered: Nature and purpose of research; What is an experiment; Supporting and refuting hypotheses; Independent and dependent variables; Control of variables; Standardised instructions and procedures; Methods of sampling; and Design of investigations.
The following topics are covered: Introduction to the nature/nurture debate on visual perception; Fantz - form perception; Gibson and Walk - depth perception; how the physiology of the human visual system helps us judge depth and distance; Bower - size constancy; and animal experiments on early sensory deprivation.
The following topics are covered: Development of non-verbal communication in humans, gestures etc; comparisons with non-human primates; outline of language development in humans; including naturalistic observational in humans; including naturalistic observational studies and criticisms of these; and Innate and reinforcement theories.
The following topics are covered: Definitions of intelligence; mental age and IQ; Tests of intelligence; and Advantages and disadvantages of IQ testing.
The following topics are covered: Twins studies; stability of IQ; and Are early experiences decisive for later development?
The following topics are covered: Tables and histograms, correlation and scattergrams; Mean; Range; and Drawing conclusions from data.
The following topics are covered: Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; including studies of egocentrism and criticisms of his work.
The following topics are covered: Learning and conditioning – classical conditioning and operant conditioning; including explanations of extinction, discrimination and generalisation; positive and negative reinforcement; and Social Learning Theory and criticisms.
The following topics are covered: Personality structure; and 5 stage theory, criticisms.
The following topics are covered: Definition in psychological terms; and Investigation of moral behaviour, moral feelings and moral judgement.
The following topics are covered: Sex-typing; Gender identity; and Biological, social and cultural theories.
The following topics are covered: Biological basis of aggression; Psychological theory and aggression; Aggression as a learned response; Imitation of aggression; viewing violence; Punishment for aggression; and Sex differences in aggression.
The following topics are covered: Observational, Survey, Correlational, Experimental - advantages and disadvantages.
The following topics are covered: The importance of play to learning; Piaget’s theory of play; forms of play; Relevance of psychological theories to pre-school education; Play and learning in nursery schools; and Play therapy.
The following topics are covered: Programmed learning and its relationship to learning theory - advantages and disadvantages; and Discovery learning and its effectiveness.
The following topics are covered: Explanation and examples; Relationship to learning theory; and Points systems, Advantages and disadvantages.
