Training Program in Developmental Psychology

描述(由申请人提供)： 这一培训计划的目标是每年在芝加哥大学一个基础广泛的发展科学项目中培训四名博士后学生和最多四名博士后研究员。受训人员从事广泛的实验室和实地研究，使他们能够开展有关发展的基础科学的研究，并认真参与处理和解决紧迫的实际问题。该课程让学生接触到各种研究和技术，包括对婴儿、幼儿和年龄较大的儿童的实验和自然主义研究，手势和叙事分析，计算分析，神经内分泌技术，脑成像和电生理技术，以及民族志研究。 该计划由核心的发展性教员组成，并加入其他在发展问题上有实质性兴趣的教员。培训教师专注于研究的三个主要内容领域：认知、语言和社会发展。在这些内容领域，该学院在不同的分析水平上调查发展--个人心理发展水平，生物对发展的影响，以及影响发展的社会/背景因素。培训教师在合作研究和教学方面有着悠久的传统。因此，学生在每个发展研究领域接触到多个视角，他们经常从事跨学科研究。 博士前课程为学员提供坚实的实验心理学基础，并通过课程、研讨会和研究经验提供发展科学方面的专门培训。博士后实习生和博士后实习生参加每周的发展研讨会。博士后实习生将有至少两名来自培训教师的导师，并将加入丰富的环境，在心理学系进行博士后研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this training program is to train four predoctoral students and up to four postdoctoral fellows each year in a broadly based program in developmental science at the University of Chicago. Trainees engage in a wide range of laboratory and field-based research that will enable them to conduct research on the basic science of development and to participate in serious ways in addressing and solving pressing practical problems. The program offers students exposure to a variety of studies and techniques, including experimental and naturalistic studies of infants, toddlers, and older children, gesture and narrative analysis, computational analysis, neuro-endocrine techniques, brain-imaging and electrophysiological techniques, and ethnographic studies. The program is comprised of a core of developmental faculty who are joined by additional faculty members with substantive interests in developmental issues. The training faculty focuses on three main content areas of research: cognitive, language, and social development. Across these content areas, the faculty investigates development at different levels of analysis -- the levels of individual psychological development, of biological influences on development, and of the social/contextual factors affecting development. The training faculty has a long tradition of collaborative research and teaching. Thus, students are exposed to multiple perspectives within each developmental research area, and they often engage in interdisciplinary research. The predoctoral program offers trainees a strong grounding in experimental psychology and provides specialized training in developmental science through courses, seminars, and research experiences. Predoctoral trainees and postdoctoral trainees attend the weekly developmental seminar. Postdoctoral trainees will have at least two mentors from the training faculty and will join a rich environment for postdoctoral investigations in the Department of Psychology.