Knowledge and understanding
• Typical cognitive development: models, methods and instruments to assess cognitive development
• Atypical cognitive development: etiological models explaining neurodevelopmental disorders
• Experimental designs to study neurodevelopmental disorders
• Technological approaches to assess and address neurodevelopmental disorders

Applying knowledge and understanding
• Understanding, analysis, and evaluation of research designs in cognitive developmental psychology
• Identifying and analyzing the critical elements of research designs to understand different application in cognitive development
• Applying experimental paradigms for the investigation of typical and atypical cognitive development and its relationships with behaviour and emotions
• Exploring and reasoning about potential and limits of technological approaches applied to atypical development

Making judgment
Students will gain the ability to independently integrate methodological and theoretical skills in the field of applied cognitive development and to apply them to critically judge previous studies and propose new research projects in the different sub-fields of applied cognitive development, taking into account the specific critical aspects of each research technique and various operational situations. Students will also gain the ability to reorganize the acquired knowledge to promote innovative and original solutions through judgment based on empirical data and a critical reading of the complexities inherent to applied cognitive development. This will be achieved through class discussions and group work.

Communication skills
Students will acquire communication skills that allow effective interaction with various professionals from different cultural and scientific backgrounds; through group presentations, students will learn how to propose innovative research projects in applied cognitive development and to communicate their results and conclusions to an audience of specialists and non-specialists in a clear, detailed, and scientifically grounded manner, using the specific lexicon of the discipline. Students will also learn how to coordinate during teamwork and collaborate effectively and competently in English.

Learning skills
The course will promote the acquisition of the ability to adopt new developments and innovations emerging from international scientific results in applied cognitive development, updating one's skills to the rapid evolution of the field. The course will also promote the use of specialized bibliographic resources to perform in-depth scientific reviews to critically judge current knowledge in applied cognitive development and capitalize on it to propose further advancements in the field (e.g., through the development of new scientific projects). This will be achieved by discussing the available digital instruments to perform bibliographic research and through class discussions.