Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Cognitive development | |||||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | |||||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Laurence Rousselle | |||||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | |||||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | |||||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | |||||||||||
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Course contents :
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| 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 attention, executive functions, memory, 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. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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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) |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Prerequisite : Cognitive Psychology (PSYC0028-1) | |||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| 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 |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face-to-face | |||||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| 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. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written examination
A failure to questions on basic notions of the course and identified as such will lead to a maximum note of 7/20 |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. L. Rousselle, Chargée de cours laurence.rousselle@ulg.ac.be Assistants : Magali Ngawa m.ngawa@ulg.ac.be Line Vossius line.vossius@ulg.ac.be | |||||||||||
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Items online :
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 | Slides The slides will be posted on the dedicated course area on e-campus |
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