PSYC 4240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Tabula Rasa, Abstraction

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4240
• Professor: Rosanne Menna

Document Summary

View of children as passive entities whose developmental path are primarily determined: behaviourism. Behaviourism conclusions about human development should be based on observations of overt behaviour children are a tabula rasa (blank slate) development is a continuous process of behavioural change shaped by a person"s unique environment. Organismic theories view children as active entities whose developmental paths are primarily determined by forces from within themselves psychoanalytic perspective (freud) develop an identity (the ego) and through our interactions with the environment (the superego) Psychoanalytic theories: behaviour is governed by unconscious as well as conscious motives and processes. Personality structure develops over time, as a result of the interaction between the child"s inborn drives/needs and the responses of the key people in the child"s world. Stage theorists: the shifts happen in step-like fashion, more abrupt shifts hence why its a stage theory.