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PSYC 358 Developmental Social Neuroscience Units: 3.00
How do children and adolescents learn to make sense of the social world around them? This course focuses on research that aims to answer this question, leveraging neuroimaging techniques to better understand how the developing brain parses, processes, and responds to social and emotional information.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite PSYC 203/3.0 and PSYC 251/3.0.
Exclusion PSYC 350/3.0 (Topic Title: Developmental Social Neuroscience - Fall 2022).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe developmental trends in socio-emotional behaviour and interrelated changes in brain structure and function across infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
- Synthesize knowledge about developmental change across several functional domains.
- Critically appraise empirical research findings in developmental social neuroscience.
- Effectively communicate concepts, findings, and implications of empirical research in developmental social neuroscience to a layperson audience.