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1 BASIC INFORMATION HOME CONTEXT AND COMPETENCES ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES Compulsory Subject Developmental Psychology II Year Semester Credits HOME Learning results defining the subject The student, passing this subject, will get the following results: 1 Understand and explain the changes produced the stages of the life cycle, from preadolescence to old age.

2 2 Use documentary sources relevant in evolutionary Psychology, with judgement and summarizing skills, as well as keep up-to-date knowledge and skills related to the profession. 3 Interpret changes and interrelate them to the life events surrounding the individual. 4 Design intervention programmes aimed to improve and facilitate evolutionary changes, evaluate them, adapt them and follow their course. Introduction Brief presentation of the subject This subject aims to lay the foundations for the study of human development, which will be more thoroughly studied in further specialized subjects. This is a subject under the scope of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, taught in the second semester. This is a basic subject, framed in the module Psychology of the Life Cycle and Education, which provides with general and essential knowledge necessary for any branch of specialization in the field of Psychology. Syllabus Thematic Content Section I Adolescence and young adulthood

3 Unit 1. Origins and meaning Unit 2. Intellectual development Unit 3. Personality development Unit 4. Social development Unit 5. Risk situations Section II Adulthood Unit 6. Physical changes Unit 7. Cognitive development Unit 8. Personal and social development Section III- Middle Age Unit 9. Physical changes Unit 10. Cognitive development Unit 11. Social and personal development Section IV- Old Age Unit 12. Physical changes Unit 13. Well-being in the last stage Unit 14. The end of life

4 BASIC INFORMATION Professors José Martín-Albo Lucas Recommendations for those taking the subject Having passed Developmental Psychology I. Activities and Key Dates Big group lectures: 4h/odd weeks along the semester Big group seminars: 4h/even weeks along the semester Exam (theory/practice) at the end of the semester (date announced by the university) Deadline for handing in the report (practical assignments): May 15 Deadline for the handing of report (solution to a given problem): May 25

5 CONTEXT AND COMPETENCES Meaning, context, relevance and general objectives of the subject The subject and the expected results correspond to the following approach and objectives: TRANSVERSAL/GENERIC COMPETENCES: - Information management. - Critical reasoning - Social commitment SUBJECT-SPECIFIC COMPETENCES: Cognitive (Know) - Know the different theoretical models of Psychology and judge their contributions and limitations. - Know the main processes and stages of psychological development along the life cycle, considering its normality or abnormality. Procedural (Know-how) - Be able to elaborate written and oral reports. - Be able to identify differences, problems and needs. Attitudinal (Be) - Value the contributions of scientific research to knowledge and to professional practice.

6 Context and meaning of the subject in the degree This subject is part of the module Psychology and Human Development (42 compulsory credits), which includes: Evolutionary psychology (12 credits) Subject: Developmental psychology I Subject: Developmental psychology II Biology of behaviour (18 credits) Subject: Psychobiology I Subject: Psychobiology II Subject: Neuropsychology Psychology of personality (12 credits) Subject: Psychology of personality I Subject: Psychology of personality II Passing this subject will make the student more competent to... 1 Develop competences related to the psychologist s professional development in different branches, by knowing the consequences of the maturing process. 2 Evaluate emotional, behavioural and social changes produced throughout life. 3

7 Anticipate possible problems related to the development of intervention programmes deriving from evolutionary changes. 4 Have a better understanding of the implications of life as a variable which can affect other psychological variables. Importance of the learning results gained through this subject: This subject allows the student to acquire essential knowledge and skills to describe and explain development from adolescence onwards, and interindividual differences in development processes. This allows to lay the foundations for prediction and intervention in development throughout the life cycle in order to optimise it, as well as to explain evolutionary processes in reference to basic socialization contexts (family, groups of equals, school, etc)

8 ASSESSMENT Assessment activities The student must prove to have gained the expected learning results through the following assessment activities 1 The final qualification of the subject is global, that is, the student gets only one qualification which represents his level of achievement in the activities undertaken. 2 Conceptual content assessed is included in the basic bibliographical references indicated in each thematic unit, as well as in the complementary explanations given in lectures and seminars. 3 The assessment consists of a multiple choice test covering conceptual and methodological content of the subject. The score represents 65% of the final grade, thus the student must get a minimum score of 2.5 over 6.5 in order to pass the subject. This is a 30 questions multiple choice test (3 answer options) which takes place once this course ends. The correction follows the following formula: [(A- E/3)/30] x 6,5. 4 There is a continuous assessment for those practical skills acquired in class, active participation and quality of assignments. Assessment criteria for skills acquired by the students are indicated in the practical assignments. In order to assess personal work, attending class and participating actively will be considered together with the submission of a report (practical assignments). This qualification represents 20% of the final grade. 5

9 Solution to a given problem. This concept is included in the practice section and represents 15% of the final grade. The student must hand in a final report giving answers to the problem proposed.

10 ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES General methodology The learning process designed for this subject is based on the following aspects: 1. Lectures. Lectures consist of a presentation of the contents of the syllabus, together with the elaboration of practical exercises in class (case analysis, video analysis, etc), with the use of a dynamic and participative methodology completed by the student with compulsory readings. 2.Seminars. Small group teaching is also known as seminar. 3.Tutorship. During the course the student has an official tutorship schedule that can use to ask questions about the contents of the subject. 4. Solution to a given problem. Learning based in problems is a teaching-learning strategy that starts with a real problem; a group of students look for a solution together. Programmed learning activities The programme offered to the students to help them to get the expected results includes the following activities... 1

11 Attending lectures regularly (On-site) 2 Attending seminars (On-site) 3 Working on the solution of a given problem: information gathering, tutorship, discussion groups in the moodle platform 4 Elaborating a report (practical assignments). 5 Elaborating a final report giving answers to the problem proposed. 6 Study the contents of the programme using bibliographical references and materials given throughout the course. Plan and calendar Calendar of attended sessions and deadlines Section I Section II Section III Section IV Practice February Lectures Practice March Seminar 1 Lectures Practice April Seminar 2 Lectures Practice May Seminar 3 Lectures Practice Deadline 1

12 June Seminar 4 Deadline 2 (final exam) Seminar 1: Bibliographical resources in Evolutionary Psychology Seminar 2: Disorders related to adolescence Seminar 3. Middle-age crisis: Myth or reality? Seminar 4. Euthanasia and ethical code. Deadline 1. Report of practical assignments. Deadline 2. Report of solution to a given problem. Bibliography Bibliographic resources García Madruga, J. A., Gutiérrez Martínez, F. y Carriedo, N. (2002). Psicología Evolutiva (Vols. I y II). Madrid: UNED. López, F., Etxebarría, I., Fuentes, Mª J. y Ortiz, MªJ. (2000). Desarrollo afectivo y social. Madrid: Pirámide. Mietzel, G. (2005). Claves de la Psicología Evolutiva: infancia y juventud. Barcelona: Herder. Palacios, J., Marchesi, A. y Coll, C. (Comps.) (2000). Desarrollo psicológico y educación (2ª ed). Madrid: Alianza. Papalia, D. E., Wendkos-Olds, S. y Duskin-Feldman, R. (2005). Desarrollo Humano (9ª ed.). Madrid: McGraw Hill. Triadó, C. y Villar, F. (coords.)(2006). Psicología de la vejez. Madrid: Alianza. Yuste, N., Rubio, R. Y Aleixandre, M. (2004). Introducción a la Psicogerontología. Madrid: Pirámide.