Module PY1100-KP07

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

7

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Psychology 2027, compulsory, psychology
• Bachelor Psychology 2016, compulsory, psychology
• Master Media Informatics 2020, optional subject, psychology
• Bachelor Occupational Therapy 2018, optional subject, psychology
• Master Media Informatics 2014, optional subject, psychology
• Bachelor Psychology 2020, compulsory, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• course in Developmental Psychology (seminar, 2 SWS)
• lecture in Developmental Psychology (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 150 hours private studies and exercises
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Core concepts, theories and methods in developmental psychology
• Physical development, cognitive development, Piaget, information processing theory, attachment theories, psychosocial development, moral
• Basic scientific approaches and empirical findings on selected aspects of lifespan development and contextual factors
• Prenatal development
• Infancy and toddlerhood
• Early and middle childhood
• Adolescence
• Early and middle adulthood
• Old age and death

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students will know how to explain and interpret findings in developmental psychology on the basis of different theoretical views
• Students will be able to infer expert knowledge to specific developmental issues
• Students will be able to generate hypotheses in order to explain and predict research questions in developmental psychology
• Students will learn how to assess the validity of empirical studies concerning a variety of problems in developmental psychology

Grading through:

• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nico Bunzeck

Teacher:

• Department of Psychology
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nico Bunzeck
• Dr. rer. biol.hum. Tineke Steiger

Literature:

• Robert S. Feldman : Entwicklungspsychologie Pearson, 2024
• Arnold Lohaus, Marc Vierhaus, Sakari Lemola : Entwicklungspsychologie des Kindes- und Judendalters Springer Nature, 2024
• Martin Pinquart, Gudrun Schwarzer, Peter Zimmermann : Entwicklungspsychologie – Kindes- und Jugendalter (2nd ed.) Hogrefe, 2018

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

15.07.2025