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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
psychology
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Ariel Knafo
Coordinator Office Hours:
On appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Ariel Knafo
Course/Module description:
The students will participate in developmental research that is conducted in the lab of social development in psychology department.
The course will focus on personality development and on hereditary and environmental factors that contribute to individual differences in social behavior.
The course includes practical work in the lab in analyzing children's behavior from videotaped observations or in conducting experiences with children or infants. Grade will be determined based on involvement in the assignments and active, continuous participation. There is an option to write a seminar work in the frame of the course.
Course/Module aims:
The students will get acquainted with the different stages of scientific research, starting from recruiting subjects to analyzing the observations, and will be involved in one or more of the stages.
In addition, the students will receive background in developmental research, and will analyze articles examining environmental and hereditary factors that influence personality development, pro-social behavior, temperament, parenting, values etc.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Ask research questions in variety of themes related to personality development and understand the complexity of the field. In addition, the students should be able to design a research project according to the common methods in developmental research.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
active participation in research and group meetings
Course/Module Content:
1)Temperament and personality
2)Parenting
3) Heredity, environment and their joint outcomes
4) Pro-social behavior
5)The development of values during childhood
Required Reading:
Avinun, R. & Knafo, A. (2013). The Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins (LIST)—An Integrative View of Social Development, Twin Research and Human Genetics, 18 (1), 197-201.
Zentner & Bates (2008), Child Temperament:An Integrative Review of Concepts, Research Programs, and Measures, European Journal of Developmental Science [EJDS],2, 7–37
Putnam, s. & Sanson,A., Child temperament and parenting, Handbook and parenting, Vol. 1, 255-277.
Avinun, R. & Knafo, A. (2013). Socialization, Genetics and their Interplay in Development, Handbook of socialization.
1) Knafo, A., Israel, S. & Ebstein, R. (2011). Heritability of children’s prosocial behavior and differential susceptibility to parenting by variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene, Development and Psychopathology, 23 (2011), 53–67.
2) Fehr, E., Bernhard, H. & Rockenbach, B. (2008). Egalitarianism in young children, Nature, 454, 1079-1083.
Döring, A. K., Daniel, E., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2016). The development of values. Social Development.
Additional Reading Material:
None
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 100 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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