47.501 Applied Developmental Psychology
Course Schedule
Fall, 2004
Additional Readings being added
Note
that links to outside reading references and thought questions are on date
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Due |
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Se
8 |
Orientation
& Research Methods |
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Se
15 |
Applied
Developmental Overview |
See below |
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Se
22 |
Theoretical
Bases & Prenatal
Development |
F
1-3 MEL
1 (Moen) and 18 (Bronfenbrenner) |
|
|
Se
29 |
Infancy |
F
4-6 MEL
10 (Macoby) |
|
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Oc
6 |
Early
Childhood |
F
7-8 MEL
14 (Brooks-Gunn) |
Select
Sec 2 |
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|
Culture
in Childhood |
|
Exam I Due |
|
Oc
20 |
Middle
Childhood |
F
9-10 MEL
3 (Rutter) |
Select
Sec 3 |
|
Oc
27 |
Adolescence |
F 11-12 MEL
8 (Goodnow) |
Proposal due Select Sec 4 |
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No 2 |
Express Yourself: VOTE!!!
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No
3 |
Adolescence-Early
Adulthood |
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Select Sec. 5 |
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No 10 |
Class cancelled due to illness |
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No
17 |
Take home test distributed |
F
13-16 |
Selections Sc 6 |
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No
24 |
Later
Adulthood & Aging |
F
17-19 |
Select Sec 7-8 |
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De
1 |
Developmental
ecology of violence: Prevention & Change |
See
below |
Initial draft of papers due by Friday 12.3 at 5:00 |
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De
8 |
Presentations
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Final papers due Dec 15 |
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Applied Developmental Psychology: An overview
These files are available via links below or PsychArticles on the
UML Library page
Leventhal,
T. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2000). The
Neighborhoods They Live in: The Effects of Neighborhood Residence on Child and
Adolescent Outcomes. Psychological
Bulletin. Vol. 126 (2), pp. 309-337.
HTML
file
Masten,
A.S. (2001). Ordinary Magic: Resilience
Processes in Development. American
Psychologist, 56 (3), pp. 227-238.
HTML
file
Tanner,
E.M. & Finn-Stevenson, M.
(2002). Nutrition and Brain
Development: Social Policy Implications.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72 (2), pp. 182-193. HTML file
Arcus,
D. (2002). School shooting fatalities
and school corporal punishment: A look
at the states. Aggressive Behavior,
28, 173-183. PDF file
Osofsky,
J. D. (1995). The effects of exposure to violence to children. American
Psychologist, 50, 782-788. PDF file
Olds, D., Eckenrode, J. , Henderson, G. et al (1997). Long-term effects of home visitation on maternal life course and child abuse and neglect: 15-year follow-up of a randomized trial. JAMA, 278, 637-643. PDF file
Dodge, K. A. Pettit, G. S.
& Bates, J. E. (1994). Socialization mediators of the relation between
socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. Child Development, 65,
649-665. PDF file