FSS:PSYn5802 Development of Socio-Emotional - Course Information
PSYn5802 Development of Socio-Emotional Processing in Infancy an Early Childhood
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Emma Jayne Jackson (lecturer)
Radim Lacina, B.A., M.Sc. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jan Širůček, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites
- Sufficient proficiency in academic English
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is for the student to learn about the development of socio-emotional processing in infancy and early childhood. Students will become acquainted with the methods used in this field of research as well as challenges that researchers face.
- Learning outcomes
- Having successfully completed the course, the student will be able to:
• Know and discuss the importance of research in this field, especially as it relates to adult levels of proficiency in these skills
• Understand and critically discuss the methodology used in studying socio-emotional development over infancy and early childhood, including EEG
• Understand the developmental timeline of socio-emotional development
• Understand how socio-emotional skills are relevant for disorders such as autism - Syllabus
- Workshop 1) Why and how we study early socio-emotional processing development
- Workshop 2) The emergence of emotional expression processing and its implications for disorders of social development
- Workshop 3) Factors driving and moderating socio-emotional development
- Workshop 4) Outstanding questions and limitations in the field
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, reading, group discussion, essay writing
- Assessment methods
- A short 1200-1500 word essay: ‘Factors influencing and constraining development of socio-emotional processing, including processing of emotional expressions’. The format will be like an argumentative literature review, and we will cover how to do this in workshop 4.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
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