"Development and Educational Psychology" is a compulsory course for the mental health education major (independent undergraduate course part) in Jiangsu higher education self-study exam. This course aims to improve the basic theoretical knowledge of developmental psychology and educational psychology, and lay a foundation for cultivating their application ability in the process of mental health education.

This course is a follow-up course after the basic psychology course. Through systematic study, candidates can systematically master the basic knowledge, basic principles and basic research methods of development and educational psychology, deeply understand the laws of individual psychological development and educational psychology, and the relationship between learning and development, and learn to use these knowledge to analyze people's development and solve problems in mental health education. It also lays a good foundation for the study of subsequent courses.

Second, the test objectives (test knowledge, test requirements)

Chapter 1 Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Evaluation requirements

(A) the concept of child development psychology

1, memorizing: (1) the concept of children's developmental psychology; (2) Research object and content

2. Understand: (1) The source of children's developmental psychological problems.

(B) the basic theoretical issues of child development psychology

1, memorization: (1) The development of the debate between heredity and environment.

2. Understanding: (1) the significance of continuity and development stages; (2) The significance of critical period in children's psychological development.

(C) Research methods of children's developmental psychology

1, memorize: (1) The significance of horizontal research and vertical research; (2) the significance of cross-cultural research

2. Understanding: (1) The development history of children's developmental psychology.

Chapter II Development of Children's Feeling and Perception

Evaluation requirements

(A) the basic characteristics of children's perceptual development

1, recitation: (1) Several methods to evaluate the newborn's feelings; (2) The developmental characteristics of children's vision and hearing.

2. Understanding: (1) The characteristics of children's perceptual development.

(B) the basic characteristics of children's observation development

1, postscript: (1) The main aspects of children's observation.

2. Understanding: (1) The level of children's observation; (2) The development trend of children's observation.

The third chapter is the theory of children's cognitive development.

Evaluation requirements

(A) Piaget's basic views on the development of children's thinking

1, memorizing: (1) Characteristics of thinking structure; (2) Thinking mechanism

2. Comprehension: (1) Various viewpoints on the origin of thinking.

(B) the stages and characteristics of children's thinking development

1, memorizing: (1) the division of thinking development stages; (2) the characteristics of thinking development

2. Understanding: (1) Evaluation of Piaget's theory

(C) The main viewpoints of information processing theory of children's cognitive development

1, memorization: (1) Composition of cognitive units; (2) the basic stage of information processing

2. Understanding: (1) Changes of children's short-term memory and long-term memory; (2) The basic concept of metacognition; (3) Evaluation of information processing theory of children's cognitive development.

Chapter IV Development of Children's Language and Intelligence

Evaluation requirements

(A) Children's language preparation and development period

1, memorizing: (1) The concept of children's language preparation period; (2) The concept of children's language development period.

2. Understanding: (1) The development stage of children's language preparation; (2) the characteristics of children's word meaning development

(B) the main ideas of language acquisition theory

1, memorizing: (1) theoretical points of language acquisition; (2) The main viewpoints of innate determinism

2. Understanding: (1) The main points of the theory of interaction between environment and subject in language acquisition theory.