PSY 383 - Children’s Understanding of Their Social World Credits: 3

This course will explore children?s developing understanding of the social world. An emphasis will be placed on the development of social cognition. Various forms of social learning (ways children learn from others) will be discussed. Broad theories of developmental social cognition including Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory and Dodge’s Social Information Processing Theory will be studied. Empirical research investigating topics related to how children learn from others and how they learn about themselves and others will be examined.

Prerequisite(s): PSY 101 or HON 151