May 10, 2024  
2019-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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


Effective until Spring 2020: 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.

Effective Spring 2020: This course will explore children’s developing understanding of the social world. Empirical research related to how children learn from others and how they learn about themselves and others will be examined. Topics include various forms of social learning, knowledge of the self, perceptions of others’ thoughts and predictions of others’ behaviors, and prosocial behavior. In addition, factors that impact children’s understanding of the social world will be examined.

Prerequisite(s): PSY 101  or HON 151  



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