PSY30200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Little Albert Experiment, Albert Bandura
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Mid-twentieth century theories: behaviorism: can elicit a response through conditioning. Skinner= conditioning based on reinforcement and punishment: social learning (cognitive) theory: Albert bandura= learn a lot by watching and copying. A lot of work focused on modeling behavior and looking to salient: piaget"s cognitive-development theory: children are not as incompetent as models to determine what your behavior will be they used to be viewed to be. Developmental stages for how children see the world. Did a lot of close observation to develop these stages. Came up with the idea that children are not passive recipients they are actively constructing their own ideas. Limitations= children are more capable than he thought tasks that he used to test were based on unfamiliar concepts to children. Taking in inputs, processing them, and then evoking a reaction. Focusing on things like attention, memory, and learning strategies. Looks at many different fields: ethology and evolutionary developmental psychology.
