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Grao en Educación Infantil
 Subjects
  Developmental Psychology (0 to 6 years olds)
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
 1. Developmental Psychology
1.1. Object of study of the Developmental Psychology
1.2. Processes and stages of development during infancy
1.3. Determinants of the development
1.4. Basic designs for developmental research
2. Early Childhood Education
2.1. Aims and objectives of early childhood education
2.2. Curriculum in early childhood education
2.3. Basic competencies in early childhood education
2. PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT
 1. Introduction
2. Physical development
3. Psychomotor development in early childhood
3.1. Systems for acting in the world: reflexes
3.2. Systems for receiving information: The senses
3.3. Systems for transmitting information: Crying and smiling
3.4. Motor skills
4. Psychomotor development in early childhood
4.1. Progress in gross psychomotor skills
4.2. Progress in fine psychomotor skills
4.3. Establishment of lateral preference
4.4. The body as a schema
4.5. Muscle tone
4.6. The structuring of space and time
3. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1. Introduction
2. Development of attention
3. Memory Development
4. Development of intelligence
4.1 Sensorimotor intelligence.
4.2 Pre-operational intelligence
5. Educational implications for the stage
4. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT 1. Introduction
2. Language acquisition and development in the first two years of life
2.1. Pre-linguistic stage
2.2. Linguistic stage
2.3 . Aspects favouring language acquisition
3. Language development from the age of two
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Acquisition of the sounds of language: phonological development
3.3. Acquisition of word meaning: semantic development
3.4. Acquisition of the rules of word organisation: morphosyntactic development
3.5. Knowledge of language
4. Educational implications for the stage
5. AFFECTIVE-EMOTIONAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT 1. Introduction
2. Personal, affective-emotional and social development in early childhood
2.1. The construction of personal identity
2.2. Affective-emotional development
2.3. Social development
3. Personal, affective-emotional and social development in second childhood
3.1. Construction of personal identity
3.2. Emotional and moral development
3.3. Social development
4. Educational implications for the stage
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