PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Behaviorism, Habituation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Film 1: summer hill a school that focused on helping students and teaching them what really mattered. Film 2: early education, teaching kids at early ages because they absorb so much. Need to ask questions, based on dilemma, the relative influence (environment, biological) Natural instinct to learn depends on the nature. Why would it be bad to teach earlier in life, some children don"t like as much input, may not be ready to learn this early. Interaction between nature and nurture; both would help (most researchers would argue) The process in which nature and nurture interact and how they are present in development; however researchers inflict one more then the other most time. Piget: defend nature, need to progress through stages rather then teaching something when not in the right stage. Development in stages is either faster or slower. Language learning today 5 words, next day 5, day after 5, (steady because you can control it )