Discover fascinating details about how the input we conceptualize as infants and toddlers creates our adult conscious experience at McHenry County College’s next Experts and Insights speaker series Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. in the College’s Luecht Auditorium. “Consciousness: Becoming Self-Aware” will be presented by Psychology instructor Bill Zingrone.
“The content of our human consciousness is unique among the animals and is developed by every infant and toddler without effort in the first five years of life,” said Zingrone. “You don't have to be a developmental psychologist to find that fascinating!”
The session will explore how infants and toddlers slowly build a model of the world, picking up concepts and becoming aware of who they are. Young humans are able to imagine the future and build memories, allowing us to plan our lives and achieve our goals.
Bill Zingrone has been teaching Introduction to Psychology, Human Development Over the Lifespan, and Child Development at MCC for more than 15 years. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Northern Illinois University in 2010, with research interests in Cognitive Development and Evolution
The session is free and open to the public. Registration is requested but walk-ins are welcome.
The next Experts and Insights session will be “Henry VII and Katherine of Aragon: The Divorce That Changed the World” on Thursday, April 18.
Interested participants, register and learn more. If you need an accommodation or a sign language interpreter, please contact MCC’s Access and Disability Services department at (815) 455-8766 or disabilityservices@mchenry.edu.
The Experts and Insights series originally started in 2019 as an opportunity for the community to experience the high quality of education and expertise provided by MCC’s faculty as they present topics in their fields of study.