Infant and Early Childhood Cognition

Lecture Notes

The topics covered in each lecture below may not match the calendar proposed in the syllabus. During the teaching of the course, the topics covered each session shifted during the semester. The following table reflects the lecture sequence as it was taught in class. The final lecture on imagination and pretend play is not available.

LEC #	TOPICS
1	Introduction—philosophical questions, psychological methods (PDF)
2	Theoretical perspectives in developmental psychology: Piaget (PDF)
3	Theoretical perspectives post-Piaget (PDF - 1.5MB)
4	Methods (cont.) and perception (PDF)
5	Perception (cont.) and object knowledge (PDF - 1.1MB)
6	Objects and number (PDF - 1.4MB)
7	Statistical reasoning in infancy (PDF - 1.6MB)
8	Computational models of cognitive development courtesy of Julian Jara-Ettinger (PDF - 1.9MB) Supplementary notes courtesy of Julian Jara-Ettinger (PDF) Spatial navigation courtesy of Max Siegel (PDF - 1.3MB)
9	Concepts: From definitions to features to theories (PDF)
10	Causal knowledge in infancy and early childhood (PDF - 1.4MB)
11	The perception of agency and goal-directed action in infancy; agency and attachment (PDF - 1.9MB)
12	Attachment (cont.) and representational theory of mind (PDF - 1.3MB)
13	Theory of mind (cont.) and autism (PDF - 1.4MB)
14	Word learning (PDF - 1.3MB)
15	Language courtesy of Melissa Kline and Kim Scott (PDF - 1.2MB)
16	Moral reasoning (PDF - 1.7MB)