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Understanding child development: from synapse to society by Coursera
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
15 Topics
The developmental systems approach
What it takes to study development from a developmental systems approach
Introduction to Dynamics of Youth and the cohort studies
General introduction
Short survey
Introduction
Applying the developmental systems approach to well-being
Optional readings on the developmental systems approach
Introduction
The YOUth cohort studies
What do you know already?
Test your knowledge on the developmental systems approach
How can you make it happen?
What do you think of Dynamics of Youth and the cohort studies?
Test your understanding of the developmental systems approach
14 Topics
The early developing brain
Growing synapses - Interview with a brain researcher
Developing motor skills
Interview with a human movement scientist
WEIRD science
Introduction
Brain plasticity and behaviour
Optional reading on the developing brain
Optional reading on brain plasticity
Introduction
The development of motor behavior
Test your knowledge on brain development
Test your knowledge on motor development
What did you learn about brain and motor development?
11 Topics
The emergence of thinking and understanding
Playing (with) rats - Interview with a neurobiologist
Rats and synapses - Interview about interdisciplinary collaboration
Experimenting teenagers - Interview with a psychologist
Applied geography - Interview with a social geographer
Embodied cognition culture and geography
Introduction
More on cognitive development
Test your knowledge on cognitive development
What did you learn about cognitive development?
What do you think of animal research?
11 Topics
Speech and language development
'Talking' Zebrafinches - Interview with a biologist
Talking to babies - Interview with a linguist
Language and machine learning - Interview with a brain imaging expert
Language (embodied) cognition and culture
Introduction
Cracking the code of language
Media literacy
What do you know already about language development?
Test your knowledge on speech and language development
What did you learn about speech and language development?
10 Topics
Developing emotions and sociability
Language and behavior problems - Interview with a linguist
Social-emotional problems - Interview with a developmental psychologist
Ethnic and socio-economical influences - Interview with an interdisciplinary social scientist
Integration
Introduction
Culture and the development of emotions
More on social-emotional development
Test your knowledge on social-emotional development
What did you learn about social-emotional development?
7 Topics
The case of prematurely born children - Interview with a clinical child and family researcher
Zooming out - Interview with a biologist
Introduction
Final survey
Acknowledgements
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