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Developmental Psychology 1: Early Childhood

Code: 101728 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500893 Speech therapy FB 1

Contact

Name:
Antoni Castelló Tarrida
Email:
toni.castello@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

None.


Objectives and Contextualisation

- Knowing the general lines of human development from birth to pre-adolescence.

- Determining the main milestones in the developmental process.

- Knowing the processes involved in the development in a variety of sociocultural contexts.

 


Competences

  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Demonstrate an understanding and correct use of the terminology and methodology of speech-therapy research.
  • Innovate in the methods and processes of this area of knowledge in response to the needs and wishes of society.
  • Integrate the foundations of biology (anatomy and physiology), psychology (evolutionary processes and development), language and teaching as these relate to speech-therapy intervention in communication, language, speech, hearing, voice and non-verbal oral functions.
  • Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse a situation and identify points for improvement.
  2. Analyse the indicators of sustainability of academic and professional activities in the areas of knowledge, integrating social, economic and/or environmental dimensions.
  3. Analyse the sex- or gender-based inequalities and the gender biases present in one's own area of knowledge.
  4. Communicate in an inclusive manner avoiding the use of sexist or discriminatory language.
  5. Consider how gender stereotypes and roles impinge on the exercise of the profession.
  6. Correctly use the terminology and methodology characteristics of scientific research.
  7. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
  8. Identify situations in which a change or improvement is needed.
  9. Identify the principal forms of sex- or gender-based inequality and discrimination present in society.
  10. Identify the social, economic and/or environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one's own area of knowledge.
  11. Infer the implications of evolutionary-development processes on language, speech, hearing, voice and non-verbal oral functions.
  12. Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
  13. Propose new ways of measuring visibility, success and failure in the implementation of innovative proposals or idees.
  14. Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and/or environmental benefits.
  15. Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  16. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  17. Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  18. Weigh up the impact of any long- or short-term difficulty, harm or discrimination that could be caused to certain persons or groups by the actions or projects.

Content

Block 1. Introduction to the study of human development. Basic concepts and main approaches to Developmental Psychology

Block 2. Physical and motor development.

Block 3. Cognitive development.

Block 4. Social and afective development.

Block 5. Development of personality and pycho-sexual development.

Block 6. Family and school along infancy.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Classroom practical lessons 30 1.2 11, 6
Theoretical lessons 22.5 0.9 11, 6
Type: Supervised      
Expositions 0.5 0.02 11, 6
Follow-up of group activities 1 0.04 11, 6
Type: Autonomous      
Contents' study 48 1.92 11, 6
Practical work 48 1.92 11, 6

Lectures will be combined with practical lessons in the classroom where knowledge will integrate through participative activities.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
01. Examination A on introductory contents (First evaluation period) 30 % 0 0 7, 3, 4, 9, 11, 17, 6, 5, 18
02. Examination B on introductory contents (Second evaluation period) 30 % 0 0 2, 1, 10, 8, 11, 13, 12, 14, 17, 6, 18
03. Seminar report (Second evaluation period) 30 % 0 0 7, 2, 3, 1, 4, 10, 9, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17, 15, 16, 6, 5, 18
04. Exposure of the report (December) 10 % 0 0 7, 2, 3, 1, 4, 10, 9, 8, 11, 13, 12, 14, 17, 15, 16, 6, 5, 18

The weight of the theory is 60% of the final mark while practical lessons provide the remaining 40%.

Activities 01 to 02 will be delivered individually. Activity 03 and 04 will be performed in a group. All evidences will be presented in Catalan or Spanish. The delivery of the translation of the face-to-face assessment tests will be carried out if the requirements established in article 263 are met and your request is made in week 4 electronically (e-form) (more information on the Faculty's website ).

The final mark will be the addition of the marks obtained in the evaluation activities 01 to 04, pondered by the specified percentages (see "Assessment activities" table). The course will be passed whenever the sum of scores, pondered by the percentages, yields a result of 5.0 or greater. Hence theory and practices do not have to be passed independently.

In the case of choosing SINGLE ASSESSMENT, it will take place on the same day and place as the test of the second evaluation period of the subject where all the contents of the subject will be evaluated. There will be two partial exams with test-type questions, the delivery of the final report and the oral presentation of the same report. Total duration of approximately 5 hours. The final grade of the subject will be obtained as described in the continuous assessment. The single assessment is requested electronically (e-form) in the specific period (more information on the Faculty's website).

To access to the recuperation it is compulsory to have at least the 67% of the course mark. If the delivered activities are lesser than 40% of the course will be considered as NON-EVALUABLE. The recovery of the theory will consist in a forty questions, multiple-choice test concerning the contents delivered. The recovery of the practices will consist in the delivery of the report previewed in activity 04.

It is not previewed that students who enrolled for a second or further time were evaluated by a single, no recoverable, synthesis test.

Faculty regulations: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.htm


Bibliography

COMPLEMENTARY READINGS

BERMEJO, V. (1994): Desarrollo cognitivo. Madrid: Síntesis.

BERGER,K.S. i THOMSON, R.A. (2007) Psicología del desarrollo: inafancia y adolescencia. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana

CÓRDOBA, A.I, DESCALS, A. i GIL, M.D. (Coords.) (2006) Psicología del desarrollo en la edat escolar. Madrid: Pirámide

CARRETERO,M.,PALACIOS,J. Y MARCHESI,A. (1984)Psicología Evolutiva I Alianza psicología.

CASTELLVI, P. (1994): Teories i models. Introducció a la psicologia evolutiva i educativa. Barcelona: Biblioteca universitaria Enciclopedia Catalana/Universitat Ramon Llull.

DELVAL,J. (1994) El desarrollo humano. Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores.

ENESCO, Ileana (2004): El desarrollo del bebé. Cognición, emoción y afectividad.  Madrid: Alianza editorial.

GARCÍA MUÑOZ, A (2010) Psicología del desarrollo en la etapa de educación primaria.Madrid:Pirámide

HOFFMAN,L.; PARIS,S.; HALL,E. (1995) Psicología del desarrollo hoy. Madrid: McGraw-Hill

MUÑOZ,V. et al.(2011) Psicología del desarrollo aplicada a la Educación. Madrid: Pirámide

PALACIOS,J.;MARCHESI A.; COLL,C (2001) Desarrollo Psicológico y Educación Vol I. Madrid. Alianza 

PAPALIA, D.E. et al. (2013) Desarrollo humano Mc Graw Hill. México

PERINAT,A. (Comp.) (2003): Psicologia del desarrollo. Un enfoques sistémico Barcelona EDIUOC

SILVESTRE,N. i SOLÉ, M.R. (1993) Psicología Evolutiva: Infancia y preadolescencia.Ediciones CEAC.Barcelona.

SHAFFER, D. (2000) Psicología del desarrollo. Infancia y adolescencia. Madrid: Thomson editores.

VASTA,R., HAITH,M. I MILLER,S.A. (2001) Psicología infantil. Barcelona: Ariel

 

Specific documents

BARRIO GANDARA,M.V. del (2005) Emociones infantiles MadridPirámide. Colección Ojos Solares

HOWE,Ch. (2010) Peer Groups and children's Development. Wiley-Blackwell

LAFUENTE,M.J. i CANTERO, M.J. (2010) Vinculaciones afectivas. Apego, amistad y amor. Madrid: Ediciones Pirámide

LARSEN, R.J. BUSS,D.M.(2005) Psicologia de la Personalidad McGraw Hill

LÓPEZ,F.(Coord.)  (2001) Desarrollo afectivo y social. Madrid: Pirámide, DL


Software

The necessary software to execute the evidences will be made available at the Campus Virtual website. 


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 11 Catalan/Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 12 Catalan/Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan/Spanish first semester morning-mixed