PSY-20012 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2023/24

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2023/24

Everything is connected. Your childhood is influenced by your environment, and your adulthood is influenced by your childhood.
In this class you will study developmental and social topics that include how certain cognitive and behavioural faculties emerge throughout childhood and the role they serve, and then integrate this into how we understand the social psychology of adulthood.
Children must navigate a different world from adults: they must learn how to read the intentions and states of others (Theory of Mind), learn about family and non-family in a range of settings, and master a range of increasingly complex cognitive problems (including language, literacy, and numeracy). We then integrate these topics into concerns of adulthood, such as the formation of personal and social identities, group belonging, and complex social dilemmas (including conceptions of fairness and morality).

To develop an advanced understanding of key areas in development and social psychology, and to critically evaluate theories and research in each field. Importantly, in this module, we will expand upon material from first year, and integrate new topics in developmental psychology into the social psychology of adulthood. For example, children's peer relationships, gender development, social identities, and motor/sensory development.
Students will learn through weekly classroom sessions supplemented with four specialist workshops exploring key topics in greater detail, all of this will be underpinned by weekly asynchronous activities.

Intended Learning Outcomes

1
critically evaluate theory and research in developmental and social psychology: reflect on the ways in which different perspectives in psychology can be integrated to give a holistic view of human thought and behaviour: 2
write concisely and disseminate research to a lay audience: 1

Study hours

Topics in Developmental and Social Psychology will be introduced via 10 taught classes (2 hours each) = 20 hours
4 hours of workshops
Total synchronous = 24 hours
10 hours of guided, asynchronous learning activities, plus 116 hours spread across independent literature searching, reading, preparing for and extending knowledge from classes, and working on the assessments.
Total asynchronous = 126 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment