1. What exactly is child psychology?

• What it is, and what it isn't.
• The big names in child psychology, from Freud to Piaget.
• A quick look at the major theories

2. The First Year

• How babies develop.
• Milestones in a baby's life.
• Infants' needs.
• Infant states, such as sleeping and inactivity.
• Crying
• How to soothe a distressed baby.
• How infants see depth. Their use of the mouth.
• The social smile.

3. How children form bonds, and why that's important

• Imprinting. Surrogate mothers.
• What happens when there's no attachment?
• Separation and loss.
• The effect of praise and criticism.
• Children in institutions.
• Bed wetting.

4. How can we test our theories of child psychology?

• How experiments work.
• How to design an investigation.
• What is a hypothesis, and why is it important?
• How do we test a hypothesis?
• All about variables, and how to control them.
• Making sure your samples are right.

5. How we learn to see

• How we learn to judge depth and height.
• How the eye and brain work.
• Famous experiments.

6. How children learn to talk and communicate

• The spoken word, voice and gestures.
• How we compare with apes.

7. Are some children really smarter than others? And if so, in what way?

• How do we define intelligence?
• How you can test a child's intelligence.
• Problems with IQ testing.
• Is it nature or nurture?
• Tests on twins separated at birth.
• Scandals and controversies associated with IQ.
• Cultural bias.

8. How we do research in child psychology

• The main types of research. How to collect data.
• How reliable is the data?
• How to present your data: tables and graphs.
• How to interpret your findings.
• What conclusions can you draw?

9. How do we know what children think, and how they reason?

• How children perceive the world.
• Experiments to discover what children think.

10. How children learn

• Are children conditioned by their upbringing?
• And from whom do we learn - our friends, parents or school?
• How can we help them attain their goals.

11. Children' personalities

• Are there specific types of personality?
• We examine some theories.

12. Are children moral or immoral?

• How we define morality.
• Do children attain a moral sense?
• How you can tell?
• How we test moral behaviour and judgement.

13. Are boys and girls really different? And if so, is that innate? Or do we make them so?

• Is it biology, social environment or the culture?
• How to help free a child from stereotyping.

14. Why do children get aggressive?

• Is it nature? What's the psychology behind aggression?
• Do children learn aggression?
• TV and video violence.
• Do children imitate others?
• Bullying.
• Are girls less aggressive?
• How do we reduce aggression?

15. Boys and girls come out to play

• Why play is important.
• What do they learn from playing?
• Play in nursery school.
• Play therapy.

16. The family

• Who plays what role in the family?
• How adult behaviour affects children.
• Parenting styles.
• Working mothers - does it have an effect?
• Absent fathers.
• How do sisters and brothers affect the child?

17. Going to school

• What happens to the child at school?
• How they learn at school.
• Different types of learning - what kind of learning suits different children?
• The stages of a child's learning.
• Peer groups.
• How children learn (and sometime fail) to socialise, and how to help them.
• School phobia.

18 & 19. The writing's on the wall: children's behaviour, good and bad.

• Challenging, problematic and anti-social behaviour.
• Why it happens
• How children learn.
• Why children push boundaries, and how adults can deal with that.
• How we can affect children's behaviour.
• Educational psychology.
• Diagnosing problems.
• Dealing with gifted children.
• Supporting children with special needs.
• Sexual abuse.

20. What's next? Working in child psychology

• How to get work in child psychology.