PSYC 302 + 315

TEXTBOOK READINGS FOR PSYC 302 (Monday) and 315 (Tuesday)

Read from the section on "Understanding Why, Where, When and How Many," until end of chapter (5th Edition: pages 306-321; 6th Edition: pages 252-267)
	Most of this reading is NOT covered in the lecture content, other than some aspects of numerical understanding. This reading takes many of the ideas we'll have discussed in lecture content and then extends to infants' understanding of space, time, causality, etc. You'll want to be able to summarize the main developments in understanding within each of these domains.

	Levine, L. & Munch, J. (2017): Theories of Cognitive Development. In Child Development: An Active Learning Approach (pp. 224-244). Sage.Preview the document
	Read sections on Piaget's theory and Core Knowledge theory (what is included in the attached file) --> you can just skim the sections on Piaget's Concrete Operations and Formal Operations Stages (ie, you'll want to have a very general idea of these stages, but no need to know specifics as they aren't relevant to infancy!)
	Most of the important aspects of this reading overlap with lecture content-- though the reading goes into further depth on some things. There are additionally a few areas of the reading that we don't cover in the lecture videos that you'll still want to know! These include:
	A general idea of Piaget's preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations stages
Criticism of core knowledge theory

	Wang, J. & Feigenson, L. (2019). Infants recognize counting as numerically relevant. Developmental Science, 22, 1-10.Preview the document

Read from the section on "Understanding Oneself and Other People" , up but not including, the section on "Knowledge of Living Things." (5th Edition: pages 293-300; 6th Edition: pages 238-247)
	This reading is a pretty short segment of the text, and we'll cover most of the important ideas in the lecture videos. The reading does additionally cover theories that explain the development of theory of mind, which you'll also want to be familiar with!

	Pun, A., et al. (2018). Foundations of infants’ social group evaluations. Developmental Science, 11, 994-999.Preview the document

	Umaña‐Taylor, A. J., Douglass, S., Updegraff, K. A., & Marsiglia, F. F. (2018). A small‐scale randomized efficacy trial of the Identity Project: Promoting adolescents’ ethnic–racial identity exploration and resolution. Child Development, 89(3), 862-870.Preview the document

Read from section on "The Self" through end of chapter (5th Edition: pages 481-504; 6th Edition: pages 398-416)
	A lot of the topics from this reading are covered in the lecture videos, however the reading also covers the development of sexual identity-- which you'll want to be familiar with!

Read from start of chapter up to, but not including, section on "Child Maltreatment" (5th Edition: entire chapter; 6th Edition: pages 421-438)
	This textbook chapter covers a lot of similar content to the lecture videos, though in a different organization. In addition, this reading goes into further detail on a few topics that you'll want to be familiar with-- particularly in how family structure (same-sex parents, divorced parents, stepparents) has been shown to impact children.