PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecological Systems Theory, Jean Piaget
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Psychology needs to be concerned with detectably observable events. Watsons goal was to create a truly objective science psychology. He was inspired by pavlovs psychology of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning underlined the behavior of the child. Child behavior could be molded by response associations. The frequency of behavior could be increased by associating it with various outcomes (reinforcers) Could decrease a behavior by the outcome as well (punishment) Social learning theories have emerged- produced by albert bandura. Critical notion of learning was that children could learn simply by observing other situations. He spoke about modeling, you watch someone doing a certain behavior and you do that behavior. Ex: baby clapping his hands sees mom clapping his hands. Sociocognitive theory: revised theory, children are selective in what they imitate. They develop personal standards for behavior, ones characteristics are gonna influence them to succeed. Efficacy of learning theories have had a major impact on aspects of development.
