Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Kew Campus) (Volume 5 page 41)
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Christine Ure.
Prerequisite: A minimum of 120 points of Child Development Studies or approved equivalent.
Contact: A two-hour lecture/tutorial each week for seven weeks and a two-hour student-led seminar each week for the remaining six weeks.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should:
- understand the relationship between the brain and development of complex behaviours including language, cognition, memory and spatial and emotional aspects of behaviour; and
- demonstrate a high level of understanding of current research on the effects of congenital differences and specific interruptions and insults to brain development on the psychological functioning of the young child.
Content:
A study of how children's behaviour relates to brain structure and function. Topics will include an introduction to the organisation of the brain and principles of neural development; how the brain learns and remembers; how language is organised in the brain; the brain's control of movement; emotional development and the brain; and gender and the developing brain. Anomalies of brain development will be considered through examination of current research on links between brain and behaviour in, for example, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Tourette's Syndrome, Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Aphasia, Epileplsy and Down Syndrome.
Assessment:
A 4000 word assignment (80 per cent); a seminar presentation and a 1000 word abstract (20 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Kew Campus) (Volume 5 page 41)
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