This is one module in a series of three modules on early child development, which focus on child development and the caregiver-child relationship in the early...

This is one module in a series of three modules on early child development, which focus on child development and the caregiver-child relationship in the early years, considering the interplay of different factors, such as psychological, biological and environmental. Particular attention will be given to the bi-directional nature of the parent-child relationship, how the child influences and is influenced by their environment. The focus of the module is on normal development in the early years and which aspects or issues in the child, the parent and their relationship that can lead to future mental health problems.

This particular module, the first in the series, will focus on the following stages: pre-natal/pregnancy; transition to parenthood; newborn (up to one month); and infancy (up to six months).

The module will consider different aspects of the child, parent and parent-child relationship, such as:

development of the child’s internal world;
	parent’s internal world and its impact on their parenting and the child’s development;
	intergenerational transmission of attachment and trauma;
	complexity and diversity of family and cultural settings within which a child can develop.
All these aspects will be considered through teaching of psychoanalytic theory and contemporary research in developmental psychology and neuroscience, and exemplified through clinical examples.

Aims: This module aims to provide an extensive overview of our current understanding of learning and memory from behavioural, cognitive, and neural...

Aims: This module aims to provide an extensive overview of our current understanding of learning and memory from behavioural, cognitive, and neural perspectives, with particular emphases on theoretical ideas about the ways in which distinct memory processes can be isolated and identified, and on the practical applications of research. Objectives: Students are introduced to the idea of a processing stream from initial encoding and storage in short-term memory to subsequent consolidation in long-term memory and retrieval. The elements of this stream are not independent but are linked via interactions among component processes occurring at different points in the stream (transfer-appropriate processing). A key objective of the module is to equip students with the ability to evaluate evidence regarding the existence of distinct memory processes in this stream. Broad understanding of aspects of the neural basis and neuropsychology of memory are relevant to this objective, hence the characteristics of amnesia are discussed in depth. Students also learn about the multiple ways in which influences of memory can manifest themselves in behaviour. Applied topics such as aging, memory distortions, cognitive enhancement, and eyewitness memory are included in the module. Summary of module: The module covers major current topics in the study of human learning and memory, usually including: Short-term Memory, Working Memory and Neuroplasticity, Encoding Processes, Consolidation, Implicit Learning, Reliability of Long-Term Memory, Memory and Self, Mechanisms of Forgetting, Aging, Dementia, Metamemory, Mechanisms of Memory Retrieval, Effects of Retrieval, Transfer-Appropriate Processing and Neuroscience of Memory.