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Centre for Developmental Psychology
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Centre Description
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The Centre for Developmental Psychology, established by the Psychology
Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001, is
a state-of-the-art research facility for studies on development
across the lifespan with particular emphasis on childhood and
adolescence.
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Peers enjoy playing together.
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Siblings accompany each other in learning and playing.
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Mission
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The Centre for Developmental Psychology aims to facilitate basic
and applied research on both social and cognitive development with
infants, children, and adolescents, as well as adults. The Centre
houses separate spaces for testing and observations, specially designed
to be child-friendly. A pleasant play environment invites children
to explore and gives parents a relaxing atmosphere in which everyone
can feel comfortable. This, combined with sophisticated observational
and recording equipment, offers researchers an ideal place in which
to carry out a variety of developmental research studies.
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Assessments in the Developmental Centre.
The Developmental Centre provides an excellent place for assessing
children's abilities and observing children's behavior.
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Research
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General research objectives of the Centre include:
- Conducting basic behavioral, cognitive, and neuropsychological
research on infants, children, and adolescents, as well as adults
- Applying developmental research to educational problems and
family systems
- Assessing a wide range of cognitive, social, and behavioral
skills in infancy, childhood, and adolescence
- Forming partnerships with institutions in Hong Kong, mainland
China, and overseas to promote cross-cultural and cross-institutional
developmental research.
Research activites currently underway in the Centre include:
- Encouraging and evaluating the effects of shared parent-child
reading to stimulate emergent literacy in Hong Kong kindergartners,
including those with hearing or language impairments
- Identifying markers of reading and reading disability in primary
school children in Hong Kong and Beijing
- Tracking how early language skills in infants from Hong Kong
and Beijing predict subsequent language and reading
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The Joys of Parent-child reading:
Parent-child reading is an ideal context for children's language
development because it offers both social and contextual support
for language development. For more information, go to http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/~qefproject/ |
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Member List
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| Director |
Prof. Catherine A. McBride-Chang |
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| Members |
Prof. Him Cheung |
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Prof. Helene Fung |
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Prof. H. C. Chen |
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Prof. Patrick Leung |
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Picture from left to right, Profs. P. Leung, H.C. Chen, H. Fung,
C. McBride-Chang, T. Penney, & H. Cheung.
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