PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lev Vygotsky, Little Albert Experiment, Social Cognitive Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

John watson conducted an experiment using classical conditioning, to prove fear is a learned behaviour. Little albert displayed few signs of fear of various stimuli: watson then introduced a white rat, accompanied by a loud clanging sound that scared. Albert: eventually albert learned to fear all things fuzzy. Process by which existing schemata are modified or changed by new experiences and equilibration: process within piaget"s theory that reorganizes schemata. This is the point where the original schema no longer holds true and we must form an entirely new, stable, and more advanced schemata. The goldilocks solutions: social scaffolding: when a mentor or guide supports a learner by matching his or her efforts to a child"s developmental level, changing the level of support to fit the child"s current performance. Since tasks that are too easy result in boredom, and tasks too difficult result in frustration, no learning occurs.