01:830:331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Observational Learning, Behaviorism, Ontogeny
22 Nov 2016
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Help us organize the through observations and research. Explains facts and questions about why things are the way they aer. Guide us to make questions and predictions. Are reasonable expansive: covers significant theoretical territory, doesn"t attempt to explain everything in life and the universe. Parsimonious = it gets right to the point, not overly complicated --> the theory uses only the constructs that it needs. Are logically sound : cannot contradict itself. Are empirically sound : are based on research findings and should match up with what we currently know. Should be testable: makes clear, unambiguous predictions and are falsifiable. Quantitative/continuous: development is a smooth gradual change that is continuous. Freud: there are innate, biologically based drives that all humans have, 5 stages of development, stages are completed by puberty, childhood is an important stage : the unconscious and emotions.
