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PSYC 296 - What Children Know

Type of Course: Capstone Seminar
Examines the evolution of children’s knowledge about the physical world; the biological world; language, number and other symbolic systems; and the social world. How do infants’ and children’s perceptual and cognitive abilities interact with input from caretakers to advance their knowledge? How do symbolic systems such as language and writing get internalized? Related topics are the evolution of language in the human species, the history of number and writing systems and animal cognition.

Prerequisites: PSYC 120  or PSYC 150  .

Cross Listed: PSYC 396 

Instructor: Ms. Wiser

When Offered: Offered periodically.

Faculty: Marianne Wiser, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Psychology
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