WESTERN UNIVERSITY
LONDON CANADA
Department of Psychology
2014-2015
Psychology 2040A Section 001
Child Development
1.0 CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
A survey of theory and research in developmental psychology including learning, cognition, perception, personality and social development in infancy and childhood.
Antirequisites: Psychology 2044, 2410A/B, 2480E, Health Sciences 2700A/B and the former 3700A/B
Antirequisites are courses that overlap sufficiently in content that only one can be taken for credit. So if you take a course that is an antirequisite to a course previously taken, you will lose credit for the earlier course, regardless of the grade achieved in the most recent course.
3 lecture hours, 0.5 course
2.0 COURSE INFORMATION
Instructor: Dr. J Bruce Morton
Office, Phone Number, Email address: SSC6434; 519-661-2111 x84795; bmorton3@uwo.ca
Office Hours: By appointment
Teaching Assistant: Mark McPhedran
Email address: mmcphedr@uwo.ca
Office Hours: By appointment
If you or someone you know is experiencing distress, there are several resources here at Western to assist you. Please visit: http://www.uwo.ca/uwocom/mentalhealth/ for more information on these resources and on mental health.
Please contact the course instructor if you require material in an alternate format or if you require any other arrangements to make this course more accessible to you. You may also wish to contact Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) at 519-661-
2111 ext 82147 for any specific question regarding an accommodation.
3.0 TEXTBOOK
Bukatko, D. & Daehler, M. W. (2012). Child Development; A thematic approach (6 th
Edition). Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.

4.0 COURSE OBJECTIVES
The goal of this course is to introduce the theoretical, methodological, and empirical foundations of the field of Developmental Psychology.
5.0 EVALUATION
Although the Psychology Department does not require instructors to adjust their course grades to conform to specific targets, the expectation is that course marks will be distributed around the following averages:
70% 1000-level and 2000-level courses
72% 2100-2990-level courses
75% 3000-level courses
80% 4000-level courses
The Psychology Department follows the University of Western Ontario grading guidelines, which are as follows
(see http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/general/grades_undergrad.pdf
):
A+ 90-100 One could scarcely expect better from a student at this level
A 80-89 Superior work that is clearly above average
B 70-79 Good work, meeting all requirements, and eminently satisfactory
C 60-69 Competent work, meeting requirements
D 50-59 Fair work, minimally acceptable
F below 50 Fail
MIDTERM 1 = 30%
MIDTERM 2 = 30%
FINAL = 40%
Exams will consist exclusively of multiple choice questions.
Students who are unable to attend a MIDTERM examination are required to provide the Instructor with documentation that clearly attests to their inability to be present for the MIDTERM. Failure to do so will result in a grade of 0 for the MIDTERM.
Students who provide necessary documentation will be given an opportunity to write a
MAKE-UP examination. There will be one date and time for the MAKE-UP exam which will be determined after the MIDTERM exam date. The format of the MAKE-
UP exam will be different than the format of the MIDTERM exam.
6.0 TEST AND EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
MIDTERM EXAM 1: Tuesday, October 7, 2014
MIDTERM EXAM 2: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
FINAL EXAMINATION: To be scheduled by the Registrar's Office.

7.0 LECTURE SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 9, 2014: Introduction
Chap. 1
Tuesday, September 16, 2014: Biological foundations
Chap. 3 (pp. 70-79; 96-103)
Tuesday, September 23, 2014: Brain development
Chap. 5 (pp. 152-161)
Tuesday, September 30, 2014: Perceptual and motor development + REVIEW
Chap. 5 (pp. 165-172); Chap. 6 (pp. 206-232)
Tuesday, October 7, 2014: MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Tuesday, October 14, 2014: Cognitive development I: Jean Piaget
Chap. 8 (pp. 278-300)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014: Cognitive development II: Information processing
Chap. 9 (pp. 301-319)
Tuesday, October 28, 2014: Language development & Theory of Mind
Chap. 7, Chap. 9 (pp. 331-337)
Tuesday, November 4, 2014: MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Tuesday, November 11, 2014: Emotional development & Attachment
Chap. 11
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: Parenting and Peer relationships
Chap. 14 (pp. 514-520); Chap. 15
Tuesday, November 25, 2014: Abnormal Development: Williams syndrome & autism
TBA
Tuesday, December 2, 2014: REVIEW

8.0 STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC OFFENCES
Students are responsible for understanding the nature and avoiding the occurrence of plagiarism and other scholastic offenses. Plagiarism and cheating are considered very serious offenses because they undermine the integrity of research and education. Actions constituting a scholastic offense are described at the following link: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/appeals/scholoff.pdf
As of Sept. 1, 2009, the Department of Psychology will take the following steps to detect scholastic offenses. All multiple-choice tests and exams will be checked for similarities in the pattern of responses using reliable software, and records will be made of student seating locations in all tests and exams. All written assignments will be submitted to TurnItIn, a service designed to detect and deter plagiarism by comparing written material to over 5 billion pages of content located on the Internet or in TurnItIn’s databases. All papers submitted for such checking will be included as source documents in the reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of papers subsequently submitted to the system. Use of the service is subject to the licensing agreement, currently between The University of Western Ontario and
Turnitin.com ( http://www.turnitin.com
).
Possible penalties for a scholastic offense include failure of the assignment, failure of the course, suspension from the University, and expulsion from the University.
9.0 OTHER INFORMATION
Office of the Registrar web site: http://registrar.uwo.ca
Student Development Services web site: http://www.sdc.uwo.ca
Please see the Psychology Undergraduate web site for information on the following: http://psychology.uwo.ca/undergradresponsibilities.htm
- Policy on Cheating and Academic Misconduct
- Procedures for Appealing Academic Evaluations
- Policy on Attendance
- Policy Regarding Makeup Exams and Extensions of Deadlines
- Policy for Assignments
- Short Absences
- Extended Absences
- Documentation
- Academic Concerns
- 2014 Calendar References
No electronic devices, including cell phones, will be allowed during exams.