PSY 260 Syllabus Course Schedule Grading Rubrics

During our first meeting, we’ll discuss why we’re here, outline our roles & expectations, review the syllabus & schedule, and conclude with a brief 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.

We’ll complete the midterm exam, discuss the course, and preview the 2nd half of PSY 260/560.

This week’s module examines adolescence, a period of rapid physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. It explores changes such as puberty, the construction of identity, and the evolving complexity of peer and parent relationships, while also considering how industrialized societies extend this stage into emerging adulthood.

This week’s module explores the transition from adolescence into adulthood, focusing on emerging adulthood (ages 18–25) and early adulthood (up to age 40). It examines the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes during these years, as well as the decisions and commitments related to relationships, family, career, and lifestyle that shape adult roles and identity.

This week’s module examines middle adulthood (ages 40–65), a stage marked by mild physical and cognitive declines that are often balanced by experience and wisdom. It also explores shifting developmental tasks, including parenting, career transitions, relationships, and evolving sense of self and personality across midlife.

This week’s module explores late adulthood, focusing on the physical and cognitive changes that come with aging, including declines and chronic health challenges. It also examines socioemotional development, highlighting how older adults adapt through changes in self-concept, living contexts, relationships, and work, often in ways that defy common stereotypes.

This week’s module provides us with an opportunity to pause and review, summarize, and discuss the developmental periods discussed in this 2nd half of the PSY 260 course: Adolescence, Emerging and Early Adulthood, Middle Adulthood, and Late Adulthood.

We’ll complete the final exam, submit a personal learning reflection, and officially conclude the PSY 260 class.