Academic Catalog

PSY6301 MEMORY DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD

Course Code: 2336301
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Psychology
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course will examine some basic issues related to memory system across the course of development. Some of the core topics that will be covered within the scope of this course are as following: memory development in infancy, through childhood, and in adolescence, neurodevelopmental bases of memory; cross-cultural perspectives on memory development; suggestibility and eyewitness testimony; childhood amnesia; trauma and memory; gender differences in memory development; memory in classroom context; emotion and memory.