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Psychology of Infancy (430 W )

Psychology of Infancy (430 W ). Daniel Messinger, Ph.D. Today. Introducing infancy Introducing the course Introducing ourselves. Human infancy. From 0 to 2 or 3 years of age Most rapid, profound change in the lifecycle In multiple areas of functioning Produce a new individual.

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Psychology of Infancy (430 W )

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  1. Psychology of Infancy (430W) Daniel Messinger, Ph.D.

  2. Today • Introducing infancy • Introducing the course • Introducing ourselves

  3. Human infancy • From 0 to 2 or 3 years of age • Most rapid, profound change in the lifecycle • In multiple areas of functioning • Produce a new individual

  4. Multiple areas of infant development • Motor • jerky hand movements to coordinated walking • Communication • crying to talking • Social • no sense of self/other to complex relationships • Emotional • crying to laughing and the beginnings of pride • Cognitive • ‘Where’s that breast’ to make-believe

  5. United by a process • Infant subjectivity • Stern’s ‘emergent self’ • Rapidly forming action/sensation patterns • Create new competencies and new challenges

  6. Infancy in its own terms • Nature wants children to be children before they are men. If we deliberately depart from this order, we shall get premature fruits which are neither ripe nor well flavored and which soon decay. We shall have youthful sages and grown up children. Childhood has ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling, peculiar to itself; nothing can be more foolish than to substitute our ways for them. • Jean Jacques Rousseau (quoted in Bjorklund)

  7. Development—Please describe • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm_DiUhqCkc&feature=relatedLex is Three • Write down 1-36 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTjHLF3xKWoChild growth face morph time-lapse (from birth to almost 4). • How does development happen? Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys. 9 months • Natalie Time Lapse: Birth to 10 years old in 1 minute 25 sec.

  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vNxjwt2AqY Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys. 9 months • http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/aging-timelapse-anthony-cerniello/ a face from infancy to adulthood from family stills

  9. Class description • Critical questions class-by-class • Focus of class sessions • Weekly papers • Critical questions, final project • Select for in-depth study • Final paper • Empirical project • Honors credit available • Research opportunities • Psych 367-368

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