University of Liege | Version française
Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
PSYC5860-1  Cognitive development

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in Psychology and Education : Speech and Language Therapy , 3rd year3
One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Speech Therapy3
Lecturer :  N..., Laurence Rousselle
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
This sequence of lessons aims at giving students a solid knowledge of the development of  cognitive skills.
The course will review the main theories that have influenced the field of cognitive developmental psychology. The methods currently used in research to observe the cognitive abilities in pre-verbal infants will be presetend as well as the clinical tools used to assess the development psycho-socio-motor development in young children.
Topics covered in this course are the development of oral language and the emergence of object concept, the development of attention,  executive functions, and memory, the acquisition of written language,  the development of numerical processing and calculation, the role of metacognition in school learning, the development of face recognition and social cognition, and finally the impact of socio-economic and socio-cultural factors on cognitive development.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
  After this sequence of lessons, students will be able to represent the main developmental steps  early psycho-socio-engine and have a general knowledge of typical cognitive développemert in the areas of language, memory, the attention, executive functions ...
It will be able to use his knowledge to identify the cognitive processes involved in the daily activities of children at play or learning and estimate the age of the children based on the situations presented (vignette)
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Prerequisite :   Cognitive Psychology (PSYC0028-1)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
 This course is based primarily on formal lectures presented in modular form, and illustrated by example, discussions, and films.
  The slides will be posted on the dedicated course area on e-campus
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :  
Blaye, A., & Lemaire, P. (2007). Psychologie du développement cognitif. Bruxelles : De Boeck.
Jouen, F., & Molina, M. (2007). Naissance et Connaissance. Wavre : Mardaga.
Nader-Grobois, N. (2011). La théorie de l'esprit. Bruxelles : De Boeck.
Bonthoux, F., Berger, C. & Blaye, A. (2004). Naissance et développement des concepts chez l'enfant : Catégoriser pour comprendre. Paris : DUNOD.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written examination
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Prof. L. Rousselle, Lecturer
laurence.rousselle@ulg.ac.be
 
Assistant : Magali Ngawa
magali.ngawa@ulg.ac.be

Items online :  
Slides
The slides will be posted on the dedicated course area on e-campus



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