Social and Personality Development
Psychology 3350
Spring, 2011
Instructor: Karen U. Crawford, Ph.D., L.P.C.
Contact Information: 303-682-1642 (H)
303-556-2851 (O) I forget to check here- leave messages at
home for me.
crawfork@mscd.edu (email is most timely way to contact me
and I will respond – just put class in the reference line – I get a
lot of campus mail that I don’t always open)
Website with all class notes:
www.KarenCrawfordPhd.com (Click on Home, then Child
Psychology, and all chapter notes are listed, anything
underlined can be downloaded and printed.)
Office: Plaza 220AC
Office Hours: Office: Plaza 220AC
9 – 9:30am; 11 – 1pm MW
1:30 – 2pm TTh
Objectives: This course is designed to give you an overview of the
development of personality and relational aspects of youth. The course will
cover development through learning modalities, family, social function as
well as gender development, pathologies and treatments.
Text:
David Shaffer, (2009) Social and Personality Development 6th
Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Grading:
4 Exams, 50 points each, drop lowest grade
Paper, worth 25 points
Article review, worth 10 points
Total points
Points Available
150
25
10
185
Grading is based on 10% spread:
90%
80%
70%
60%
Below 60%
A
B
C
D
F
1. Exams will include text material as well as material presented in class,
including videos.
2. Attendance is important for you to be able to grasp the material and
do well in class. Participation is noted and could make a difference at
the end of the semester.
3. Paper should be three pages long, including a reference page listing
the article. The written paper will be graded on the organization of
ideas, as well as coherence of ideas and format.
4. EXAM POLICY: Students must bring a scantron sheet for each exam.
Scantrons can be bought at the bookstore. You need the green ones
with have 50 answers on each side, ABCDE, a total of 100 answers.
You get to drop your lowest grade; therefore, if you miss an exam, it
is the exam you will drop. You must take the final during final week.
Date
Class and Exam Schedule
Topic
Jan. 18- Feb. 15
Ch.1 Introduction
Ch. 2 Classical Theories of Social and Personality
Development
Ch. 3 Recent Perspectives on Social and Personality
Development
Ch. 4 Emotional Development and Temperament
*********************EXAM 1 Feb. 15**********************
*************10 pt. Article Review Due Feb. 22 ***************
Feb. 17 – Mar. 17
Ch. 5Intimate Relationships and their Implications for
Future Development
Ch. 6 Development of the Self and Social Cognition
Ch. 7 Achievement
Ch. 8 Sex Differences & Gender-Role Development
****************** Exam 2 March 17 ************************
**************** Spring Break March 21- 27 *******************
March 29 – Ap. 14
Ch. 9 Aggression and Antisocial Conduct
Ch. 10 Altruism and Moral Development
Ch. 11 The Family
********************** Exam 3 April 14 **********************
******************* PAPER DUE April 28 ********************
April 19 – Finals Ch. 12 Extrafamilial Influences 1: Media and Schooling
Ch. 13 Extrafamilial Influences 2: Peers as Social Agents
Ch. 14 Epilogue: Fitting the Pieces Together
*********************Final Week May 9 – 13 ********************
Writing assignment is in 2 parts:
1) The 10 pt. article review will be based on a reading from journals on
reserve in the library:
You can also use online journal articles, from a reputable journal.
These journals include:
a. Child Development in Context by Sattler, Kramer, Shabatay, &
Berntein. 2000.
b. Human Development, 05/06. Freiberg, editor. 2003.
c. Human Development, 03/04. Freiberg, editor. 2003.
d. Human Development, 02/03. Freiberg, editor, 2002.
e. Human Development, 07/08. Freiberg, editor, 2008.
2) 25 pts.: The research paper or presentation is based on your own
research using one of the options noted later in the syllabus: a book
review, research into a topic, or a biography of a notable person’s life.
Paper should be five to seven pages long (Including title page and
bibliography.) The written paper will be graded on the organization
of ideas, as well as coherence of ideas and format. All sources must be
cited in the body of the paper, using standard psychology citation, as
well as listed in a bibliography. A paper without a bibliography will
not be graded. Use at least three or four citations, including books
and journal articles, not just internet sites. You have the option of
doing a presentation before class instead of a paper for this
assignment, and just turn in your reference page after your
presentation.
Options for Paper or presentation:
1) The paper may be on any topic of your personal interest in this field.
What is essential is that you find citations of the most recent date, as
the information in this field is constantly updated. Citations must
include books and journal/magazine articles, not just internet sites.
2) A book analysis. Describe the thesis of the book, such as family
dysfunctions or violence as related to development, hereditary
predispositions, effects of war, trauma, etc. on development.
3) A biography of someone with an interesting developmental history.
Use APA style (the Publication Manual of the APA is located at the Auraria
Library Reserve Desk.) Guidelines include:
1) Should be typed in 8.5 x 11” paper.
2) Should be double-spaced with 10-12 font size.
3) Margins should be one-inch.
4) Page numbers should appear in upper right-hand corner of the page,
preceded by your last name (e.g. Smith, 4)
5) Pages should be stapled together in upper left-hand corner (don’t use a
folder.)
6) Place your full name, class name, and date in the upper left-hand
corner of the first page of the paper.
7) Plagiarism: Representing someone else’s research and/or words as
your own is considered plagiarism,. Plagiarism, is a serious offense,
and can result in failing the course. In order to avoid plagiarism, you
must give credit to the author whose work you are citing.
8) The following format is used for citations made within the text:
a. One work by one author: In a recent study of reaction
times…(Rogers, 1994) OR: Rogers (1994) compared
reaction…
b. One work by multiple authors: when a work has two authors,
always cite both names every time the reference occurs in the
text. When a work has three or more authors, cite all authors the
first time the reference occurs. Later in your text, include only
the first author, followed by et al. Example: Wasserstein et al.
(1995)
c. Citation of a work discussed in another source: If a work is
cited in your article, and you did not read the original work
cited, you should use the following citation format:
Siedenberg’s study (as cited in Coltheart, 1993)..Make
sure Coltheart is listed in references.
d. If you used a number of thoughts from, a single source in a
paragraph, it is okay to cite just at the end of the
paragraph, not every sentence. Always cite the beginning of
a new reference in the first newly referenced sentence. For
quotes, note the pages of the quote in the citation.
9) Reference page: This is where you list, in alphabetical order, the
citations you used in your paper. Every reference must be cited in the
text; every citation must be listed in reference page.
Use the following format for your reference page:
a. Article or chapter in an edited book:
Bjork, F.A. (1989) Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive
mechanism in human memory.
In H.L. Roediger III (Ed.), Varieties of Memory and
Consciousness (pp. 309-334). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum
Publishers.
b. Journal article:
Giancola, P.R. & Tarter, R.I. (1999). Executive cognitive
functioning and risk for substance abuse. Psychological
Science, 10, 203-205.
c. Book:
Robinson, D.P. (1994) The Development of the Child. San
Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Last Name, Initials. (Date of publication). Title of Book.
Location of publisher: Name of Publisher.
d. Citation of work discussed in a secondary source: (e.g., a
study by Seidenberg, cited in Coltheart.)
Coltheart, M.. (1993). Models of reading aloud. Psychological
Review, 100, 589-608.
Electronic resources:
Gelb, N. (2003, May). Winter of discontent [Electronic version].
Smithsonian, 34, 65.
Motion Pictures:
Nichols, M. (Director). (1966) Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
[Motion picture]. [With Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George
Segal, & Sandy Dennis] United States: Warner Brothers.
This is a brief discussion of style. Underlining may be italics. You can also
use your text’s reference pages for examples of references. If writing is
difficult for you, please use the Writing Center, 3rd floor, King Center.