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Lecture notes files.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
ACTIVITIES |
| 1 |
Introduction (PDF) |
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| 2 |
Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Psychology I: Piaget (PDF) |
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| 3 |
Theoretical Perspectives II: Post-Piaget (PDF) |
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| 4 |
Magic Tricks and Methods (PDF - 1.6 MB) |
Magic Tricks and Methods |
| 5 |
What's it Like to be a Baby? Perceptual Foundations (PDF) |
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| 6 |
Object Concepts (PDF) |
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| 7 |
Number and Object Individuation (PDF) |
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| 8 |
Object Labels and Object Knowledge (PDF) |
Objects and Words Discussion |
| 9 |
Concepts, Categories and Induction (PDF) |
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| 10 |
Identity, Essences and Transformation (PDF - 1.4 MB) |
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| 11 |
Recognizing Agents (PDF) |
Agents vs. Objects Discussion |
| 12 |
Understanding Goals and Intentions
Hooppell Guest Lecture: Spatial Reasoning (PDF - 1.0 MB) (Courtesy of Catherine Hooppell. Used with permission.) |
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| 13 |
Appearance and Reality |
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| 14 |
Imagination and Pretend Play (PDF) |
Language and Thought Debate |
| 15 |
Representational Theory of Mind (PDF) |
Statistical Learning Simulation |
| 16 |
Theory of Mind and Word Learning
Baby Talk |
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| 17 |
Baraff-Bonowitz Guest Lecture: Language, Culture, and Thought (PDF) (Courtesy of Liz Baraff-Bonawitz. Used with permission.) |
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| 18 |
Autism (PDF) |
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| 19 |
Recognizing Causal Transformations
Intervening - Tools Use, Means-end Reasoning (PDF)
Causation, Categorization, and Counterfactuals |
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| 20 |
Statistical Learning in Infancy (PDF - 2.4 MB)# |
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| 21 |
Means-ends Reasoning
Tool Use |
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| 22 |
Causal Reasoning 1: Explanation, Prediction, Intervention and Counterfactuals (PDF)# |
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| 23 |
Causal Reasoning 2: Assumptions, Theories, and Evidence |
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| 24 |
Conceptual Change (PDF - 1.5 MB) |
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| 25 |
Children and Social Policy (PDF)# |
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