| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Psychology I: Piaget | |
| 3 | Theoretical Perspectives II: Post-Piaget | |
| 4 | Magic Tricks and Methods | |
| 5 | What's it Like to be a Baby? Perceptual Foundations | |
| 6 | Object Concepts | |
| 7 | Number and Object Individuation | |
| 8 | Object Labels and Object Knowledge | |
| 9 | Concepts, Categories and Induction | Research proposal due |
| 10 | Identity, Essences and Transformation | |
| 11 | Recognizing Agents | |
| 12 | Understanding Goals and Intentions Hooppell Guest Lecture: Spatial Reasoning | |
| 13 | Appearance and Reality | |
| 14 | Imagination and Pretend Play | |
| 15 | Representational Theory of Mind | Literature review draft due |
| 16 | Theory of Mind and Word Learning Baby Talk | |
| 17 | Baraff-Bonowitz Guess Lecture: Language, Culture, and Thought | |
| 18 | Autism | |
| 19 | Recognizing Causal Transformations Intervening - Tools Use, Means-end Reasoning Causation, Categorization, and Counterfactuals | |
| 20 | Statistical Learning in Infancy | |
| 21 | Means-ends Reasoning Tool Use | |
| 22 | Causal Reasoning 1: Explanation, Prediction, Intervention and Counterfactuals | |
| 23 | Causal Reasoning 2: Assumptions, Theories, and Evidence | |
| 24 | Conceptual Change | |
| 25 | Children and Social Policy | Final paper due |