01:830:331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operational Definition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Processing
3 Oct 2016
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Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data. Possible explanations for phenomena: used to predict the outcome of research. Change in number of amount, such as in height, weight, or size of vocabulary. Change in kind, structure, or organization, such as the change from nonverbal to verbal communication. View of human development as being shaped by unconscious forces. Freud personality forms through unconscious childhood conflicts between the inborn urges of the id and the requirements of civilized life: oral // anal // phallic // latency // genital. In erikson"s eight stage theory social and culturally influenced process of development of the ego / self. View of human development that holds that changes in behavior result from experience. Learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role of environment in causing observable behavior. Learning based on association of a stimulus that doesn"t ordinarily elicit a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit the response.
