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Students are required to submit three critical response papers, each based on an assigned course reading of their choosing. Critical response papers may be submitted at any point during the course of the term.

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