Methods for Studying Infant Minds

Course Description

When babies look out into the world, what do they see and understand: shapes and colors, people and objects, or mental and physical states? These questions have motivated work in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence since the founding of these fields - but how do we go about answering them? In this seminar, we will read primary research articles from the field of infant cognitive development. We will engage with the hypotheses, methods, and inferences of this work, and learn about the strengths and limitations of the methods we have to answer these questions. We will also learn about open science tools that make our work more robust and likely to produce true answers, and use them to propose and plan novel research. This course is intended for upper-level undergraduate students. Prerequisites: AS.200.132 Introduction to Developmental Psychology (or instructor permission). Helpful but not required: AS.200.200 Research Methods Psychology; AS.200.201 Design and Analysis for Psychology. Enrollment restricted to Psychology majors and minors. Prerequisite(s): AS.200.132 or Instructor Approval

Code

AS.200.328

Credits

3

Subject

Psychological & Brain Sciences