Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

Education in the United States, although it supersedes that of many other nations, still leaves much to be desired. Elementary and secondary education are repetition of one another. As someone that has been schooled in America from kindergarten all the way through college it is easy for me to see that it is repetitive. The school set up, the course curriculum, the environment, and the […]

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I think the most obvious shortcoming in American elementary and secondary education is the lack of individualized hands-on learning available to students.  Because most public schools receive funding based on student’s performance on mandatory standardized tests, and because of a lack of resources and faculty, most classrooms follow one curriculum geared solely toward test performance […]

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How We Read Each Other’s Minds by Rebecca Saxe from vimeobeta on Vimeo. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/7_qaz6b0Nsw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Modules Genes and Evolution>

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Videos: Piaget’s Constructivism Conservation (5 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpREJIrpgv8 Egocentrism (1.5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OinqFgsIbh0&feature=related Categorization (2.5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtNk0BotRE&feature=related Concrete Operations Video (4 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alZXoALQJr4&feature=related Deductive Reasoning (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJyuy4B2aKU&feature=related Formal Operations (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw36PpYPPZM&feature=related Theory of Mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkB6nrk1CA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbQJms8F3x8&playnext=1&list=PL0E8E2D24FFD6E911&index=24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLubgpY2_w

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Link to report on cross-cultural research on mental-state reasoning (theory of mind)

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