PSY 260 Syllabus Grading Rubrics

During our first meeting, we’ll discuss why we’re here, outline our roles & expectations, review the syllabus & schedule, and conclude with an introduction to/overview of Developmental Psychology.

This week’s module explores human development across the lifespan, encouraging reflection on how people grow and change from infancy through older adulthood. It examines factors such as childhood temperament, adolescence, adult life choices, relationships, and careers, while also considering how these experiences shape aging, personality, and perspectives later in life.

This week’s module focuses on genetic inheritance, explaining how family members can share many traits yet still display striking differences. It also explores prenatal development, highlighting how a single cell grows and transforms into a newborn.

This week’s module examines the rapid physical and cognitive growth that occurs in infancy and toddlerhood, including advances in motor skills, perception, thinking, and language. It also explores socioemotional development, focusing on how babies learn to express and manage emotions, develop self-awareness, and build early social relationships.

This week’s module explores early childhood as a period of rapid growth in physical, motor, cognitive, and language development. It also examines socioemotional development, including how children learn to understand and regulate emotions, the role of parents and play, and the emergence of more complex social and emotional experiences.

This week’s module focuses on the physical and cognitive changes that occur during middle childhood, roughly between ages 6 and 11. It also explores how family and peer relationships influence children’s socioemotional development during this stage.

This week’s module provides us with an opportunity to pause and review, summarize, and discuss the developmental periods discussed in this 1st half of the PSY 260 course: Prenatal, Infancy, Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, and Middle Childhood.

After briefly reviewing the course concepts covered in this 1st half of our course, we’ll complete the midterm exam and preview the 2nd half of PSY 260.