Cognitive development

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Laurence Rousselle

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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 competencies in pre-verbal infants.
Topics covered in this course are the development of praxis and psycho-motor abilities, 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.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

  After this sequence of lessons, students will be able to represent the main developmental steps of early  psycho-motor development and have a general knowledge of typical cognitive developpement in the areas of language, memory, 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)

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

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: 2 parts

• Multiple Choice Questions
• Open-ended questions

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Not accessible to ERASMUS student

Contacts

Prof. L. Rousselle, Lecturer
laurence.rousselle@uliege.be

Assistants :

• Fanny Brévers : brevers@uliege.be
• Céline Fortin : fortin@uliege.be

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