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PSICOLOGIA DELLO SVILUPPO INTERATTIVO E COMUNICATIVO Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychology of Development and Psychology of Education
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Logical and reasoning skills; knowledge of the main developmental theories; knowledge of the main methods in developmental psychology; knowledge of experimental methodology; comprehension of English written research papers.
Objectives
Contents Human social sensitivity at birth; early reference understanding; gestural an first language acquisition; early social understanding; impaired and at risk conditions for shared attention; brain-behaviour-environment interactions in early cognitive development.
Extended Syllabus Early social and communicative abilities in typical and atypical conditions are presented in the light of the social understanding development. Human infants are viewed as psychobiological and developing beings. Main topics are the following: Social bond formation: innate tendencies, neurological basis, environmental affordances. Dyadic interactions: temporal contingency, expressive exchanges; interpersonal co-regulation. Triadic interactions: shared attention, communicative gestures, social referencing. Intentional communication: deictic and representational gestures, pointing development. Early language: shared references, vocal and verbal schemes, first words.
Recommended Bibliography Camaioni L. (2001) (a cura di). Psicologia dello sviluppo del linguaggio. Bologna: I l Mulino. Cap. I. Introduzione, di L. Camaioni. Cap. II. Lo sviluppo della comunicazione prima del linguaggio, di L. Camaioni e P. Perucchini. Cap. III. Parlare ai bambini che imparano a parlare, di E. Longobardi. pp. 80, € 23,50.
Tomasello M. (2009). Le origini della comunicazione umana. Cap. I. L’importanza dell’infrastruttura. Cap. 3. La comunicazione cooperativa umana. Cap. 4. Origini ontogenetiche. Cap. 5. Origini filogenetiche. Cap. 7. Dai gesti delle grandi scimmie al linguaggio. pp. 170, € 26,00
Bruner J. (1983). Il linguaggio del bambino, Roma: Armando. Le parti da studiare sono le seguenti: Avvertenza del curatore. Cap. I. Introduzione. Cap. II. Dalla comunicazione al linguaggio verbale. Cap. III. I primi giochi sociali. Cap. IV. Lo sviluppo del riferimento. Cap. V. Lo sviluppo del fare richieste. Cap. VI. Imparare a parlare. Pp. 120, € 15,60.
Teaching Methods Lectures; work in small groups; seminars by external experts; reading and discussing research articles.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
During the course: presentation of research articles; final: written task with open questions
Contacts/More Information Full frequency to lessons is highly recommended.