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PSYC 323: Developmental Psychology (Rev. 9 & 10) Report a Broken Link

Chapter 1: Introduction

Supplemental Materials
Michael. (2013, September 7). How to memorize Freud’s stages of psychosexual development (No. 202) [Video podcast episode]. In The Psych Files.

A short (about 4.5 minutes), humorous video on how to memorize Freud’s stages.
xoxoshelbyyxoxo. (2010, November 9). Bobo doll experiment [Video]. YouTube.

Bandura’s social cognitive theory modelling of Bobo doll in a four-minute video featuring Bandura himself.
Britt, M. (2009, September 13). Correlation and causation [Video]. YouTube.

Correlation vs. cause and third variable problems. An example from the textbook of third variables can be seen on page 36, where it talks about a child’s lack of self-control being potentially affected by heredity or poverty. In this case, heredity and poverty are third variables. The video is three minutes long.
CBS News. (2010, February 3). Vaccine link to autism retracted [Video]. YouTube. 

An example of a correlation study that was confused with a causal one: vaccines and autism. Two minutes long.
Lukowski, A., & Milojevich, H. (2018). Research methods in developmental psychology. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds.), Noba textbook series: Psychology. DEF Publishers. 

A link to Noba Psychology’s unit on research methods. It is a very thorough, but easy to read report.
juancarlosboada. (2009, March 9). Konrad Lorenz experiment with geese [Video]. YouTube.

This is a 1.5-minute video describing Lorenz’s classic experiment, with some photos of Lorenz himself.

Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings and Prenatal Development

Supplemental Materials
Purser, K. (2010, January 14). Prenatal development song [Video]. YouTube.

A short video on prenatal development. The video is about 2.5 minutes long.
Alda, A. (Host). (2001, October 23). The gene hunters (Season 12, Episode 2) [TV Series Episode]. In Scientific American Frontiers. The Chedd Angier Production Company.

This is an hour-long video for those who would like to learn more about genes and DNA. It’s a bit old, but most of the concepts remain relevant.
Manny1976. (2012, March 27). Chorionic villus sampling [Video]. YouTube.

The above video is about 3.5 minutes long and presents information on CVS.

Chapter 3: Birth, Physical Development, and Health

Supplemental Materials
Treeincement. (2010, June 11). The Brazelton neonatal assessment [Video]. YouTube.

This video shows Brazelton conducting parts of the neonatal behavioural assessment. The video is less than three minutes long.
biomammy. (2013, June 3). Child physical development: A timelapse [Video]. YouTube.

A video on early physical development under two minutes long.

Chapter 4: Cognitive Developmental Approaches

Supplemental Materials
Fi3021. (2008, October 11). Piaget—Stage 1—Sensorimotor, object permanence [Video]. YouTube.

Cute babies with lack of object permanence. This video is about a minute long.
munakatay. (2011, March 25). A typical child on Piaget’s conservation tasks [Video]. YouTube.

A short video on conservation task fails. It lasts for less than four minutes.
The Faculties. (2012, January 12). Theories of cognitive development, including Piaget and Vygotsky [Video]. YouTube.

A short video summarizing Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories. It’s a little over three minutes in length.
Adam. (2013, January 21). Piaget—The A not B error (sensorimotor stage) [Video]. YouTube.

A short video on lack of object permanence. It lasts about 1.5 minutes.

Chapter 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development

Supplemental Materials
Krantz, J. H. (1999). Size constancy in photography.

Information and examples of size constancy.
Illusion Works. (1997). Size constancy.

More information and examples of size constancy.
SciFri. (2015, April 6). Babies on the brink [Video]. YouTube.

Five and a half minute video that demonstrates the visual cliff, along with some critiques of the original theories.
Sanders, S. (2012, January 9). Infant reflexes [Video]. YouTube.

A short (four minute), fun video on infant reflexes.

Chapter 6: Information Processing

Supplemental Materials
007IceWeasel. (2010, January 7). The “false belief” test: Theory of mind [Video]. YouTube.

A video illustrating false beliefs and theory of mind (about four minutes long).
The Globe and Mail. (2011, April 25). The theory of mind test [Video]. YouTube.

A video illustrating false beliefs and theory of mind. This video is a little over three minutes long.
mikewestrom. (2009, June 18). Psychology—Short and long term memory [Video]. YouTube.

A video on memory that is under four minutes long.

Chapter 7: Intelligence

Supplemental Materials
Henig, R. M. (2015, December 11). Are there genes for intelligence—And is it racist to ask? National Geographic. 

The above article is from National Geographic in 2015 and discusses the controversy around studying a genetic basis for intelligence.
Buckley, A. (Producer). (2015). Robert Plomin on the genetics of intelligence [Audio podcast episode]. In The life scientific. BBC Radio 4.

Twenty-eight-minute radio interview from 2015 with Robert Plomin about genes and intelligence.

Chapter 8: Language Development

Supplemental Materials
The Conversation. (2019, May 23). Curious kids—How do babies learn to talk? [Video]. YouTube.
BBC Earth Lab. (2018, Dec 10). What happens to babies' brains when you speak Parentese? [Video]. YouTube.

Chapter 9: Emotional Development

Supplemental Materials
thibs44. (2009, January 17). The strange situation—Mary Ainsworth [Video]. YouTube.

A short (about three minute) video on attachment and the Strange Situation.
PsychologyHelp. (2010, April 2). Psychology of affection [Video]. YouTube.

A video (about two minutes long) about Harlow and contact comfort, featuring Harry Harlow himself.
Bowers, J. (2013, May 24). Temperament Kagan [Video]. YouTube.

A short video (five minutes) featuring Kagan talking about temperament.

Chapter 10: The Self and Identity

Supplemental Materials
Stienissen, G. (2011, March 14). Rouge test (self-recognition test) [Video]. YouTube.

Rouge test (mirror technique) video lasting 1 minute, 40 seconds.
Sohr-Preston, S. (2010, June 26). The rouge test with a 17 ½-month-old [Video]. YouTube.

Rouge test (mirror technique) video—This 17.5-month-old girl doesn’t get it. This video is 1.5 minutes long.
Sohr-Preston, S. (2013, May 4). Mirror recognition test (aka rouge test) with 24-month-old [Video]. YouTube.

This 24-month-old finally shows that he understands, but the video (2.5 minutes long) also shows the difficulty of studying children.
drmpcfl. (2010, May 19). SelfConcept.mov [Video]. YouTube.

Self-concept development (preschool to middle school changes). This video is 2 minutes 20 seconds long.

Chapter 11: Gender

Supplemental Materials
AdvertEnticement. (2011, January 20). Gender roles—Interviews with kids [Video]. YouTube.

A short (about 2.5 minute) video asking children about gender roles.
Science at Royal Holloway. (2012, May 24). Prof Patrick Leman on aspects of child development (part 1) [Video]. YouTube.

A three-minute clip from a lecture on gender roles.
PBS. (2001). Sex: Unknown—Companion website. Nova Online.

The above is a webpage about people who identify as intersexual.

Chapter 12: Moral Development

Supplemental Materials
drmpcfl. (2010, May 20). MoralDevelopment.mov [Video]. YouTube.

A three-minute video on Kohlberg’s stages.

Chapter 13: Families, Peers, and Schools

Supplemental Materials
Child Care Canada. (n.d.). Home page.

A website that discusses news items related to child care in Canada.
Michael. (2013, October 22). What it’s like to have autism—Interview with Alex Lowrey (No. 206) [Video podcast episode]. In The Psych Files.

A podcast of an interview (about 1 minute, 40 seconds long) with a child with autism.
Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2014). School ethnic diversity and students’ interethnic relations. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 84(1), 1–21.

This article is related to the above podcast.

Minor Assignment Journal Articles

Alejandro, J. P., Leslie, A. M., Manley, B. C., Rivas, A. F., Wiltermood, D. M., & Bainum, C. K. (2016). Preschool attendance as a predictor of self-regulation in kindergarteners. Psi Chi Journal of Psychology Research, 21(4), 222–229.
Bramesfeld, K. D., Carrick, A. C., Lessmeier, S. L., Nicoloff, A. N., Keiser, M. E., & Metter, S. A. (2013). Parental involvement in a childcare center: Assessing predictors of school-based involvement. Psi Chi Journal of Psychology Research, 18(3), 103–115.
Carlton, S., Harrison, A., Honoré, S., & Goodmon, L. B. (2019). Conceal, don’t feel: Gender differences in implicit and explicit expressions of emotions. Modern Psychological Studies, 25(1), 1–26.
Deloney, B. (2015). Polly Pocket & Ninja Turtles: A content analysis of gender stereotypes in children’s advertisements. Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal, 19, 14–28.
Gracia, S., & Hansen-Brown, A. A. (2021). Hidden links: Trait anxiety and the hostile attribution bias. Modern Psychological Studies, 27(1), 1–30.
Holtzman, C. S., Fox, P. A., & Jason, L. A. (2018). Parent-child discrepancies in children with chronic fatigue syndrome-like symptomatology. DePaul Discoveries, 7(1), 1–7.
Moates, E. T., Nowak, T. M., & Gore, J. S. (2020). Connection between tutoring format type and reading scores of elementary aged children. Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, 4(1), 5–12.
Moses, J., & Kubert, J. (2019). Effects of age and gender on spatial navigation: Evidence from Samoan primary school children. Modern Psychological Studies, 24(1), 1–26.
Mozdzierz, P., Dunton, G. F., & Mason, T. B. (2020). Associations of maternal controlling feeding practices with child internalizing symptoms and body mass index in ethnically-diverse mother-child dyads. American Journal of Undergraduate Research, 17(3), 19–28.
Nam, H., & Beyer, M. (2016). Infant mother and father attachment predict child behavior at 24 months. Modern Psychological Studies, 22(1), Article 5, 28–36.
Riehle, H. K., Driscoll, H. T., Collins-Lee, B. A., Balaban, A. J., & Arterberry, M. E. (2018). When memory falls short: The effect of suggestibility and repeated questioning on 3- to 5-year-old children’s recognition of event details. Modern Psychological Studies, 23(2), 1–15.
Smith, L. (2013). Examining parent-child cross-informant reports of attention and hyperactivity problems among low-income Latino youth. DePaul Discoveries, 2(1), 262–266.
Vorobyov, N., Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2019). A cross-cultural comparison of communicative patterns in bilingual and monolingual mother-child dyads in the United States and Thailand. Alpenglow: Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity, 5(1), 1–21.
White, D., & Carter, J. (2020). The joint impact of achievement goals and familial relationships on conduct problems in youth. DePaul Discoveries, 9(1), 1–8.
Wiesbrock, S. N. (2021). Age differences with presentation on social media. Modern Psychological Studies, 26(2), 1–25.
Wilson, S. S., Grenier, A. E., & Wicha, N. Y. Y. (2020). How do caregivers affect children’s academic performance? Evidence from primary caregivers’ educational attainment and children’s performance on standardized assessments. UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works, 7, 1–16.

Major Project: Topic 3

Helpful Websites About Correlation and Cause
Hale, J. (2011, July 18). The importance of correlational studies. Psych Central.
TEDx Talks. (2012, November 5). The danger of mixing up causality and correlation: Ionica Smeets at TEDxDelft [Video]. YouTube.
Vigen, T. (n.d.). Spurious correlations.
Option 1
Dell’antonia, K. J. (2016, June 27). Disney princesses do change girls—and boys, too. The New York Times, Well.
Coyne, S. M., Linder, J. R., Rasmussen, E. E., Nelson, D. A., & Birkbeck, V. (2016). Pretty as a princess: Longitudinal effects of engagement with Disney princesses on gender stereotypes, body esteem, and prosocial behavior in children. Child Development, 87(6), 1909–1925.
Anuradha, M. (2012). Gender stereotyping in television commercials aimed at children in India. Media Asia, 39(4), 209–215.
Malik, C., & Wojdynski, B. W. (2014). Boys earn, girls buy: Depictions of materialism on US children’s branded-entertainment websites. Journal of Children and Media, 8(4), 404–422.
Option 2
Preidt, R. (2015, August 17). Family struggles may affect boys’ brain development. U.S. News & World Report.
Jensen, S., Dickie, E. W., Schwartz, D., Evans, C. J., Dumontheil, I., Paus, T., & Barker, E. D. (2015). Effect of early adversity and childhood internalizing symptoms on brain structure in young men. Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, 169(10), 938–946.
Avants, B. B., Hackman, D. A., Betancourt, L. M., Lawson, G. M., Hurt, H., & Farah, M. J. (2015). Relation of childhood home environment to cortical thickness in late adolescence: Specificity of experience and timing. PLoS ONE, 10(10), 1–10.
Graham, A. M., Fisher, P. A., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2013). What sleeping babies hear: A functional MRI study of interparental conflict and infants’ emotion processing. Psychological Science, 24(5), 782–789.
Option 3
The Wall Street Journal. (2015, October 28). New study shows why you should get the kids to bed on time. Fox News Health.
Kelly, Y., Kelly, J., & Sacker, A. (2013). Time for bed: Associations with cognitive performance in 7-year-old children: A longitudinal population-based study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(11), 926–931.
O’Callaghan, F. V., Al Mamun, A., O’Callaghan, M., Clavarino, A., Williams, G. M., Bor, W., Heussler, H., & Najman, J. M. (2010). The link between sleep problems in infancy and early childhood and attention problems at 5 and 14 years: Evidence from a birth cohort study. Early Human Development, 86(7), 419–424.
Touchette, E., Petit, D., Seguin, J. R., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R. E., & Montplaisir, J. Y. (2007). Associations between sleep duration patterns and behavioral/cognitive functioning at school entry. Sleep, 30(9), 1213–1219.
Option 4
Howard, J. (2016, June 28). Can a baby’s motor skills predict future success? CNN.
Ghassabian, A., Sundaram, R., Bell, E., Bello, S. C., Kus, C., & Yeung, E. (2016). Gross motor milestones and subsequent development. Pediatrics, 138(1), 1–8.
Flensborg-Madsen, T., & Mortensen, E. L. (2015). Infant developmental milestones and adult intelligence: A 34-year follow-up. Early Human Development, 91(7), 393–400.
He, M., Walle, E. A., & Campos, J. J. (2015). A cross-national investigation of the relationship between infant walking and language development. Infancy, 20(3), 283–305.
Option 5
Reducing nighttime viewing a promising way to curb children’s TV diet. (2015, April 17). Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Piotrowski, J. T., Jordan, A. B., Bleakley, A., & Hennessy, M. (2015). Identifying family television practices to reduce children’s television time. Journal of Family Communication, 15(2), 159–174.
Evans, C. A., Jordan, A. B., & Horner, J. (2011). Only two hours? A qualitative study of the challenges parents perceive in restricting child television time. Journal of Family Issues, 32(9), 1223–1244.
Lauricella, A. R., Wartella, E., & Rideout, V. J. (2015). Young children’s screen time: The complex role of parent and child factors. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 36, 11–17.
Option 6
Savage, S., & Rauscher, M. (2005, November 21). Spanking children fuels aggression, anxiety. RedOrbit.
Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Palmérus, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Bombi, A. S., Zelli, A., Tapanya, S., Chaudhary, N., Deater-Deckard, K., Manke, B., & Quinn, N. (2005). Physical discipline and children’s adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator. Child Development, 76(6), 1234–1246.
Turns, B. A., & Sibley, D. S. (2018). Does maternal spanking lead to bullying behaviors at school? A longitudinal study. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(9), 2824–2832.
Maguire-Jack, K., Gromoske, A. N., & Berger, L. M. (2012). Spanking and child development during the first 5 years of life. Child Development, 83(6), 1960–1977.