Materials for psy225 Developmental Psychology 1

Materials for Psy225

Developmental Psychology 1

Prof. Packer

Welcome to the web page for Psy 225! This page contains materials to supplement each class, including the main points for that week's topic. Don't think, though, that you don't need to come to class. You'll need to do that to get the weekly one-page paper topics. And, of course, to hear me explain the materials. And to ask questions and interact with other students. Learning requires an active involvement with the material, and coming to class is a central part of that.

I will also add additional links that I've discovered. If you find any useful web sites as you surf the web, please share the links with me: packer@duq.edu

In case you've lost your copy, here's the course syllabus (It will download in PDF format)

And here is a Link to the Textbook Publisher's web site

...where you can find summaries, quizzes, flash cards, review tests, web links, and further resources.

1. Birth and the Neonate

Slides

Overview of the Stages of Development:

Infancy Early Childhood Middle Childhood Adolescence

Main Points for Week 1: Birth & Infancy

Classic Reading 1: Piaget

Here are links to sites on the web that provide more detail on some important psychologists who have explored children's development:

Sigmund Freud links:

http://users.rcn.com/brill/freudarc.html
http://freud.t0.or.at/

Erik Erikson links:

http://weber.edu/chfam/HUMAN.DEVELOPMENT/erikson.html

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/erikson.htm

John Watson links:

http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/watson.htm

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~kensicki/watson.html

Jean Piaget links:

http://www.unige.ch/piaget/

http://www.piaget.org/main.html

Vygotsky links:

http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/

http://www.kolar.org/vygotsky/

Kieran Egan's home page:

http://www.educ.sfu.ca/kegan/

Grammars of many of the world's languages (Creole, Danish, Dakota...):
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

Great link! Demonstrates the anatomy of vowel production. Point and click to hear thesound, and see how the tongue is positioned (requires Shockwave)
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/ln105/vowel/index.html

...and this one shows the articulation of consonants (also needs Shockwave):
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/linguistics/ln105/cons/index.html

"Child Language Development": This page is designed as a guideline for parents to follow their
child's normal language development. A simple timeline:
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~sowards9/title.html

More milestones:

At Carnegie Mellon University you can find a large archive of data on child language: CHILDES: the Child Language Data Exchange System:
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

Problems on Each of the Four Levels of Language

Dr. Packer's Language Acquisition Milestones

Main Points: Language Acquisition